Sentence examples for was imposed to from inspiring English sources

The regulation was imposed to prevent gun-running and to encourage settlement abroad.

On Thursday, Liberia's president lifted the state of emergency that was imposed to control the outbreak.

Progressively higher temperature was imposed to the heat exchanger prototype to cause structural failure.

Elastic strain was imposed to drive the planar [0 0 1] twist GBs.

An 8 p.m. curfew was imposed to keep people off the street, a British military spokesman said.

A US puppet was imposed to replace Aristide, in the midst of savage reprisals against Lavalas supporters.

From September 19 to 21 a three-day lockdown was imposed to allow health workers to conduct a house-to-house survey to isolate new cases.

Female officers were given command of the police and emergency services, and a voluntary curfew was imposed to keep men from the streets after dark.

The general defended the policy by saying it was imposed to "protect" soldiers from allegations of rape but said the tests would be stopped.

Like the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire.

In 2016, a three-year ban was imposed to try to boost dwindling stocks which anglers and conservationists blamed on netsmen.