Sentence examples for past imposed from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chan noted that Beijing, which in the past imposed restrictions on foreign companies hoping to do business in China, was increasingly less adversarial.

Divorced, remarried; 8 children A slowdown in "enterprise software" and Y2K jitters have hurt revenue growth: sales up only 10% vs. an 80% clip in years past; imposed first-ever layoffs in May.

The future flexes its muscles, while the past imposes its own demands.

Sushi is perfect for lunch, but this is Italy where eating like mamma is as important as dressing up, so later I walked up the cobbled Via Manzoni past imposing palazzi and clang-clattering trams to an Italian institution, Peck.

Sexual liberation has indeed come to women, who seem to have happily broken the past inhibitions imposed by middle-class life.

IN ONE of the more shameful episodes of its past, Canada imposed a hefty head tax on all Chinese immigrants in 1885, then banned their entry altogether from 1923 to 1947.

"Japan should be blamed for its actions that irritate neighboring countries while failing to repent for its past, which imposed tremendous human and material sacrifices on those countries," the party said in a statement posted on its Web site.

That was the case for past restrictions imposed on The Guardian, New York Times and Bloomberg — each of which published political exposes prior to being blocked.

Public restrictions on the decisions concerning the design, construction and managing of the technical operation have in the past been imposed on the basis of the frequency and severity of experienced adverse events.

While the United States did, to a certain degree, avoid a total collapse of its economy in the wake of one of the world's worst financial crises thanks to a series of fiscal stimuli employed to act as a 'moat' and boost growth, Greece has wholly been left scathed because of austerity measures - which had been proven perilous in the United States in the past - imposed on it by the European Union.

Four-legged intruders occasionally saunter past the parked police cars, past the imposing fieldstone guardhouse and through the wrought-iron gates as if they owned the place.