And this suggests that, if one were imposed, the government might face difficult enforcement questions.
"The difference is one is imposed on you by the gods, and one is your own damn fault".
One was imposed in the early 1930's, he said, for reasons that are no longer clear, and was in force until 1994, when transit officials decided to relax it after embarrassing news reports that a woman had been given a summons for taking a picture on a subway in the Bronx.
Developers and builders raced to get their building permits before one was imposed.
But ED declines to name or even acknowledge when a school is under investigation, instead, the public is left in the dark until a fine is announced, if one is imposed at all.
In both cases it comes with great lashes of condescension and a lack of knowledge about the countries one is imposing on.
I think that when one writes detective stories one is imposing order, and a form of imperfect but human justice, on chaos".
The difficulty, of course, is in knowing when one is discovering ideas in music and when one is imposing ideas upon it.
One resolution ends sanctions that were imposed to stop Iraq building nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
Failing that, he says, "let's use the instruments we have, even if they are ones that are imposed on us".Somewhere in the midst of all this he will be completing another book on Europe: not quite a memoir, but a reflection on past and future.
