Sentence examples for unable to impose from inspiring English sources

But the new government has been unable to impose its authority.

Investors worry that the country's politicians will be unable to impose the fiscal austerity they promise.

In both instances Scotland were unable to impose any pressure upon the new batsmen.

However courts and judges will be unable to impose harsher sentences on perpetrators because that would require legislative change.

Aceh, for its part, was unable to impose its faith on the Batak highlanders in the interior.

The government is also unable to impose the super-tax on bankers with guaranteed bonuses or contractual rights to a share of the profits they generate.

As in Greece, Portugal's debt problems go hand in hand with a weak central government that has been unable or unwilling to impose financial discipline.

He writes: "It is, as ever, interesting that the Scottish controller is unable or unwilling to impose journalistic standards on his own staff".

President Carter's problems were compounded, Mr. Rodman adds, by his choice of a secretary of state who was "unable or unwilling to impose political direction on the career bureaucracy in the president's name" -- a situation similar, he contends, to the one Nixon had with Secretary of State William Rogers, and Mr. Clinton had with Warren Christopher.

So in order to achieve their vision of "pure capitalism, cleansed of all interruptions," they have waited for massive crises -- when the population is left reeling and unable to object -- to impose their vision.

King John first tried to impose his own appointee, but was unable to force his choice on the cathedral chapter, who were responsible for electing a new bishop.