Sentence examples for position to impose from inspiring English sources

Nor is the president in a strong position to impose unpopular measures.

He's not in a position to impose anything on François Hollande".

Good government depended on limits being set to unrestrained aspirations, and Octavian was in a position to impose them.

"We are not in a position to impose anything on them, but we've reached our goal here".

It would then be in a good position to impose its choice of prime minister on its coalition partners.

Normally, a party controlling neither the White House nor the Senate would acknowledge that it isn't in a position to impose its agenda on the nation.

But moderates remain wary, fearful that the left is just waiting until it has moved enough of its people into dominant positions to impose its will.

LILLA: That we're always about... Movement politics, I think, encourages people to radicalize their positions and to impose purity tests on each other.

Connecticut's case, one of the first in which a consumer protection department has taken action against companies using global positioning systems to impose fines, motivated Mr. Spano's legislation and that of his brother, Nicholas Spano, also a Republican of Yonkers.

When the tougher standard on math and English tests for third through eighth graders was announced this summer, Mr. King said, "districts around the state had already passed their budgets, and there was a question of whether the Regents were in the position to essentially impose a new, unfunded mandate".

"Entrusted with enforcing such a limited ban," Mr. Bryant wrote, "law enforcement would be in the unenviable position of having to impose new and unprecedented scrutiny over doctors in fertility clinics".