"life imposes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to the fact that life sometimes forces us to do certain things or to accept certain conditions, often through external pressures or forces. For example, "Life imposes many duties on us, like paying taxes and doing the laundry."
He means the courage to accept love when it offers, to face death when it comes, to bear the burdens that life imposes in return for its gifts.
Bringing together childcare experts, welfare organisations and academics, it aims to highlight the exceptional pressures that modern life imposes on childhood.
A reclusive artist who, apart from a single affair with a beautiful Russian and an annual dinner with his father has little personal or intellectual life, imposes narrative limits.
Consumers have grown so inured to all the little fees that modern life imposes — raise your hand if your eyes glaze over when reading the 18 pages of your phone bill — that many people forget to protect themselves when buying or using what should be a piece of plastic fun.
The book investigates the bottomless accumulation of mysteries everyday life imposes, from the vantage of a helplessly undisguised narrator: a stroller-dad, navigating a mundane world of nappies and tantrums on train platforms, who suspects he is the possessor of literary genius, and finds these selves bitterly incommensurate.
But life imposes transitions on all of us, whether it is the end of high school or college, the breakup of a relationship, or the loss of a loved one.
He led a disciplined, orderly life, imposed partly by family poverty and partly by an urge to succeed.
"Why should anyone in public life impose himself on the people?" asked Mr. Kaunda, who led Zambia to independence from Britain in 1964 and ruled for 27 years.
It appears to revel in overthrowing our way of life imposing alien bureaucratic regimes on public sector workers and employers, demanding the continuous audit of everything, insisting that, as Blair has said many times, we 'modernise or die'.
The need to build a new place to live every few weeks trumps familiar domestic comfort as a promoter of social cohesion.It is possible that only collaborative species are able to get away with the nomadic life imposed by having to use herbaceous plants as building materials.
Despite the restrictions on Viennese musical life imposed by the war with France, Beethoven had no difficulty in getting his most ambitious works performed, largely because of the generosity of such patrons as Prince Lichnowsky, who at one point made him a regular allowance of 600 florins a year.
