Sentence examples for which it is imposed from inspiring English sources

Wariness about the death penalty has steadily increased as more and more becomes known about the treacherous ways in which it is imposed.

The court also said in Furman that a death-penalty system must have a "meaningful basis for distinguishing the few cases in which it is imposed from the many cases in which it is not".

What the two musical performances and the two utterances have in common is an identity of form, and this form, or structure, or pattern, is in principle independent of the substance, or "raw material," upon which it is imposed.

Western politicians, economists and commentators ritually deplore the excesses of an al-Bashir, a Paul Biya, an Obiang Nguema or an Ahmedinejad, but the quarrel is not with a form of economic development which they all, more or less, share, but with the unmediated brutality with which it is imposed.

When Hobbes introduces his story about names in the The Elements of Law he tells us that "A NAME or APPELLATION therefore is the voice of a man, arbitrarily imposed, for a mark to bring to his mind some conception concerning the thing on which it is imposed.

Justice Byron White added that "there is no meaningful basis for distinguishing the few cases in which it is imposed from the many cases in which it is not".

It is easy to turn an aquarium into fish soup, which is what Communism did to the countries on which it was imposed.

The Taliban's puritanical zeal, and the ferocity with which it was imposed, had cost them support.But a psychological boost is not food, or water, or electric power.

But there is no doubt that the Taliban's puritanical zeal, and the ferocity with which it was imposed, had cost them support.

The United States Supreme Court ruled that Georgia's death penalty law constituted "cruel and unusual punishment," which violated the Constitution because of the arbitrary manner in which it was imposed.

What happens is that when we work on the Categories, we follow Aristotle's lead and depart from conventional usage in such a way that the term 'man' supposits not for individual men but for the universal concept according to which it was imposed to signify, in which case the proposition is true because "species and genera are universals according to predication" (S 4.3.2: 254.3.2