Sentence examples for was to impose from inspiring English sources

The job was to impose economic order.

"If the mission was to impose terror on a nation," he said, "we achieved it.

Avis's response was to impose a surcharge on anyone 18 to 21 years old.

To avoid total meltdown in the financial sector the only choice was to impose limits on bank withdrawals.

One of the forty-nine amendments he offered (two were accepted) was to impose a broad cap on immigration visas.

The key to the deal was to impose the entire pain of bank restructuring on the lenders' uninsured creditors.

The purpose of hejab, the Islamic dress code, was to impose a near-anonymous sexual modesty upon women.

The accord in Munich was to impose a "cessation of hostilities" on the warring parties within a week.

The first campaign in the war to protect the American homeland was to impose an embargo -- on our own economy.

Before the advent of ethical and organic labels, he notes, the usual way to express political views using food was to impose boycotts.

One was to impose a FIFO ("First in, first out") principle to cases instead of the LIFO ("Last in, first out") one he found many fellow judges followed.