Sentence examples for measures forced upon from inspiring English sources

One teacher said: "We are creating a whole generation of deprived, cynical youngsters who will not forget their experiences through these 'austere' times as a result of cruel measures forced upon them".

In Greece, the Golden Dawn have arisen as a political force nourished by the anger at austerity measures, forced upon Greece as a condition of the Eurozone bailouts, high unemployment and soaring poverty rates.

This bewildering cocktail of ongoing austerity measures, forced upon an already devastated economy in strict accordance with the "troika's" solitary emphasis on austerity, will cost the Greek economy another 4.6percentt of GDP this year and will push unemployment to a new record high of 27.6percentt, according to the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research.

Ethical justification for measures forced upon society by public health policy has been thoughtfully articulated [ 7].

When debt rises to unacceptable levels, so that investors cease to believe in the ability of the country's tax base to support it, then drastic measures are forced upon the country, including severe contraction of the economy.

Today's unprecedented measures have been forced upon a reluctant, timid government.

The comments come as Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, said that he did not understand the need for harsh austerity measures to be forced upon Greece by its creditors as part of a bailout plan.

Snowden, who (the second time) had been landed by Winston Churchill with a seriously overvalued exchange rate, accepted the 'drastic and disagreeable' measures (his words) forced upon him by a 'bankers' ramp' and it was to avoid another bankers' ramp that Brown calmed the City by making the Bank of England independent.

During the drafting of the bill, his public comments were more matter-of-fact than passionate as he noted that the measure had been forced upon the state by the courts.

We have citizens of Greece who are starving because of austerity measures that have been forced upon them.

Some change was forced upon us.