Sentence examples for to foist upon from inspiring English sources

"The Serbs are trying to foist upon us the policy of ethnic cleansing," Mr. Advic said.

Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon.

(Mixtape) There comes a time in the career of every successful young rapper when it becomes necessary to try to foist upon one's captive audience a collection of rapping associates.

Mr. Glassen said it was part of an effort to "foist upon an unsuspecting and aroused public a law that would, through its operation, sound the death knell for the shooting sport and eventually disarm the American public".

At a rally on Monday in Washington, Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican from Alabama who is a vigorous opponent of the overhaul, posed a question to the largely conservative crowd: "What is the impact of these huge numbers the Senate bill wants to foist upon the American people?" he asked.

He said no to that request, just as he said no to the suggestion, floated by the players, that Richard Nixon serve as his general counsel, and no to virtually every scheme that baseball's owners tried to foist upon him during his time in office.

A writer has to grapple with them every time she sits down to work, and a lesser one might seem to foist them upon us.

It is not as accessible as some of his acknowledged masterpieces such as Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace, and Life and Times of Michael K, but it is an unsettling and puzzling novel that continues to foist itself upon my consciousness.

I was actually reading it in that cafe because I am just about to foist it upon a class of creative writing students, as part of my ongoing quest to thrust this novel on people whenever I get the chance.

As she dabs rouge onto her ghost-pale skin, or repels Laevsky with a sudden smash of the elbow when he tries to foist himself upon her from behind, she reminds us that Chekhov was the laureate not just of autumnal ennui but of an irritable summer's lust.

You should also know that the game requires Games For Windows Live how in God's name did Microsoft manage to foist that upon savvy PC gamers?—is required to play the game.