Sentence examples for were once imposed from inspiring English sources

Sometimes these sizes were once imposed by regulation, but in most product categories any such regulations have long since ceased to apply (except in a few special cases like alcohol).

Even for the nonreligious, those rules were once imposed: You need not be elderly to remember when we had no choice but to reduce activity on Sundays; stores and offices — even restaurants — were closed, there were certainly no electronics, and we were largely occupied by ourselves or our families.

Much of that no doubt results from the national mood of unity that has concentrated attention on anti-terrorism efforts and made issues that were once imposing seem smaller.

This will need to include the continued lifting of European banking sanctions and the oil embargo that was once imposed because of Iran's nuclear program.

The idea of transferring flamenco from the soloist to the ensemble is clearly to make it more splashy, and thus to lift the requirement of thorny concentration that was once imposed on the dancer and the audience.

To impose an "asylum-stop" like the "guest worker recruitment stop" was once imposed, is not reconcilable with our constitution.

A curfew lasting 24 hours was once imposed by the IDF on Nablus's 120,000 inhabitants to allow a group of settlers and 2 Likud Knesset members to pray at the site.

A big problem with capital controls is that, once imposed, they tend to linger longer than anyone anticipates because fear builds up over what might happen once they are gone.

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.

The elements of what was once an imposing personality glisten like the fragments of a shattered mirror.

After $9 million in costs (and with a $3 million annual budget), the museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, now has a library and an auditorium, along with 10,000 square feet of exhibition space on what was once the imposing "private banking" mezzanine.