Spender and others also suggest that the maleness of language constrains thought, imposing a male worldview on all of us, and making alternative visions of reality impossible, or at least very difficult to articulate.
"The other thing the administration did which I think was a terrible mistake was to impose this moratorium on drilling in the area and in other areas as well," Hume said, "which I think imposes a new and terrible burden on a region already suffering from the consequences of this oil spill".
These are but a few of the more extreme rules that apartment boards in New York City have imposed, or at least thought about imposing, on the residents of their buildings.
The new effort is an update to an estimate for the awkwardly named "Social Cost of Carbon," a range of costs, stated in dollars per ton, that carbon dioxide emissions are thought to impose on future generations.
Although the financial tax is largely thought of being imposed on equity trades, the case could be made that it should also be imposed on buying and selling bonds.
The conclusions of these experiments lead to the realization that the irreversible genetic changes that were once thought to be imposed on the genome of differentiated cells were not true, but actually they were reversible epigenetic changes.
For one to think of an act as obligatory is for one to think of it as being actually imposed on one as a demand; for every obligation, on Adams' view, there is someone who imposes that obligation by commanding.
Much of this "sexual suffering" Wolf thinks has been systemically imposed on women, across the world and down the centuries: rape and genital mutilation, military, judicial and ritual.
"We've resisted the notion of a doctrine, because we don't think you can impose one model on very different countries; that gets you into trouble and can lead you to intervene in places that you shouldn't," said Ben Rhodes, the director for strategic communications at the National Security Council.
Mr. McCourt often told students how little he thought of the petty rigors imposed on him by the public school system.
