It imposed itself on a blitzed Britain and a baffled population without a by-your-leave.
In the United States (and in the mimetic "developing" Spain) it imposed itself due to the pure speculation over urban land, which was revalued after sweeping annoying old buildings from its surface.
The turmoil highlights the central role of the military in some postcolonial Muslim countries, where at least in the fitful early stages of democracy, it forcefully imposes itself as the self-appointed arbiter of power and the guardian of national identity.
It is not an object to be possessed, but is that through which the subject and the other are brought into relation to begin with, and it thus imposes itself upon the subject as a fundamental absence or lack that is at once necessary and irremediable (Lacan 1977, 289).
"But at whom?" 8. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Loosely structured as a Heart of Darkness in reverse, where the journey recounted moves from small-town Sudan to elite London society and back again, this depthless, elusive classic of Arab literature breaks open as it presents and imposes itself.
Growing up an American Jew, it kind of imposes itself on you Zionism calls on you.
My friend Robert Pogue Harrison put it this way in a recent conversation: "Wherever the real imposes itself, it tends to dissipate the fogs of irony".
"This is not energy that brutally imposes itself; it's something you cannot touch and you cannot describe, but it's there.
Often at this juncture, a willful ignorance imposes itself, especially when it comes to taxes that aren't automatically withheld.
In this absorbing German-Austrian film, a transparent barrier also imposes itself, but the woman it traps is, by all appearances, alone.
