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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
impose
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an impressive/imposing building
▪ the impressive buildings around the town’s central square
establish/assert/impose/stamp your authority (=show people that you have authority)
▪ The new manager was anxious to establish her authority.
▪ Robertson quickly stamped his authority on the team.
▪ The State Department pressed him to take bolder steps to assert his authority.
impose a penalty
▪ Severe penalties are imposed for election fraud.
impose an obligationformal (= put someone in the position of having an obligation)
▪ A contract imposes certain obligations on employees and employers.
impose constraints on sb/sth
▪ You have to work within the constraints that the software imposes.
impose fines
▪ Councils will get sweeping powers to impose fines on drivers who park illegally.
impose limitations on sth (=an emphatic way of saying to place limitations on something)
▪ The government has imposed severe limitations on the types of food that can be imported.
impose requirementsformal (= state that something has to be done)
▪ Because the regulations impose new requirements on small businesses, they will prove costly.
impose restrictionsformal (= put restrictions on something)
▪ Some countries have imposed restrictions on advertising aimed at children.
impose sanctions (=start using them)
▪ The US imposed economic sanctions on Panama.
impose tariffs
▪ The government may impose tariffs on imports.
imposed restraints
▪ The government has imposed restraints on corporate mergers.
imposed...blockade
▪ They’ve imposed an economic blockade on the country.
imposed...curfew
▪ The government imposed a night-time curfew throughout the country.
impose/declare martial law
▪ The government may declare martial law in response to the latest violence in the region.
imposed...news blackout
▪ The Indian government has imposed a news blackout.
impose/hand down a sentence (=officially give someone a sentence)
▪ The judge imposed a three-year sentence.
impose/introduce a quota (=officially start it)
▪ In 1993 the European Union imposed quotas on banana imports.
impose/mete out a punishmentformal (= give someone a punishment)
▪ Life imprisonment should be the maximum punishment meted out by the state.
impose/set/put a ceiling (on sth)
▪ The government imposed a ceiling on imports of foreign cars.
introduce/impose a charge
▪ The government introduced a charge for water.
lay down/set/impose conditions (=say what sb must agree to)
▪ They laid down certain conditions before agreeing to the ceasefire.
place/impose an embargo on sth (=start an embargo)
▪ The UN imposed an embargo on trade with the military regime.
put/place/impose a ban
▪ The government has imposed an outright ban on fox hunting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
act
▪ The Halifax still chafes, occasionally, at the restrictions which the 1986 Building Societies Act imposes on the mutually-owned thrifts.
▪ Then on March 22, 1765, Parliament in the Stamp Act imposed the first direct tax on the colonies.
▪ Nor does the Act impose a requirement of advance notice of meetings and assemblies.
▪ Section 9 of the Act imposes certain restrictions on the making of s8 orders.
▪ Consider, for example, an Act of Parliament imposing on parents a duty to maintain their young children.
▪ This Act also imposes other duties on employers and persons at work.
▪ This Part of the Act imposes certain duties upon licensing boards in respect of seamen's canteens.
attempt
▪ Any attempt to impose some sort of external watchdog that might apply a degree of accountability is rejected as compromising its secrecy.
▪ Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people.
▪ The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment.
▪ And they have warned the Government that any attempt to impose cuts will be met with fierce opposition.
authority
▪ On May 18 the state authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
▪ Providing these will result in stronger management than having authority imposed by workers without a clinical background.
▪ Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks.
ban
▪ They've criticised the headmaster, and say he should impose a complete ban on cigarettes.Mike Rowbottom reports.
▪ But Congress overrode those draft guidelines before they were finalized and imposed a total ban two years ago.
▪ The governor of Leyte island blamed the government for failing to impose a total logging ban.
▪ Whether Proposition 140 imposes a lifetime ban was a major issue discussed by the state Supreme Court in 1991.
▪ Lawyers for Attorney General Dan Lungren argued that the initiative did not impose a lifetime ban.
▪ Environmental groups deplored the failure of the convention to impose an absolute ban on the dumping of radioactive waste.
▪ In his decision, Reinhardt said voters had not been properly informed that the law imposed a lifetime ban on candidates.
burden
▪ Despite their relatively high wages, these constraints had imposed burdens on working conditions.
▪ And why impose this added burden on yourself?
▪ Similarly, campaigning in the field imposed an increasing financial burden.
▪ Unfortunately, some policyholders were inadequately insured, thus imposing an unfair burden on all the others.
▪ White House officials said that President Bush was loath to impose burdens on industry as the country began to emerge from recession.
▪ That will not impose any great burden upon the public purse.
▪ This imposes no real burden in small problems solved by hand.
▪ We want an agreement that promotes business and does not impose burdens or barriers upon the business community.
charge
▪ Unlike the Conservatives, we will not impose any new health charges.
▪ The act did not abolish DISCs but limited their tax benefits and imposed an interest charge to tax-deferred earnings.
▪ They claim the banks are slow to reduce interest rates and impose high charges which threaten business.
▪ We have to impose charges when dealing with salmonella.
▪ Lord Sutherland told Maddison that life imprisonment was the only sentence that could be imposed on a murder charge.
condition
▪ Despite their relatively high wages, these constraints had imposed burdens on working conditions.
▪ This vision imposes severe social conditions, however.
▪ Sewing imposes very severe conditions for the threads.
▪ But without the warships, he lacked the strength to impose his conditions on Tu Duc.
▪ While admittedly not actual taxation, many impose all sorts of conditions on foreigners, effectively excluding all but the super-rich.
▪ We impose conditions on others where the love of Cod would impose no conditions at all.
▪ Senior officers may also impose such conditions as a change of route or starting time in the interests of public order.
▪ In addition, the Stock Exchange imposes conditions on companies wanting a listing.
constraint
▪ What constraints are imposed by representative democracy?
▪ In addition to any constraints imposed by debt agreements, corporations are also subject to the capital-impairment rule.
▪ In general has ten independent components so that when these eight constraints are imposed there remain just two independent components of.
▪ There are just nine of them, and the constraints they impose are not over-specific about what groups may look like.
▪ Overall, more diversity in local spending priorities emerged in the 1980s within the constraints central government imposed.
▪ But why did society voluntarily accept the constraints imposed by the gold standard?
▪ The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the claims that shackle the spirit.
control
▪ Behavioural theorists add that tall structures impose rigid supervision and control and therefore block initiative and ruin the motivation of subordinates.
▪ At the time, the country hiked import duties, imposed exchange-rate controls and nationalized the banks.
▪ Clinton also wants to impose budget controls in case those market forces are out-muscled by rising costs.
▪ His new government imposed price controls and nationalized businesses.
▪ The commissioner would negotiate regional budgets for hospitals, clinics and doctors and could impose cost controls if necessary.
▪ Such stories reinforce stock images of a regime that imposes population control by force.
▪ Where uniform procedures exist, it is easier to impose centralised control.
costs
▪ For example, the enactment of import quotas, designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
▪ Hence, many projects benefit a relatively narrow group of people and impose costs on all taxpayers.
▪ An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
▪ So will Labour's plans to impose added costs on business, if they cause an exodus of investment capital.
▪ Properly applied better-off tests would have highlighted how the lack of competition in an internalised link imposes extra costs.
▪ That was enough for magistrates in the city who imposed fines and costs of almost £900.
▪ The costs of unemployment Unemployment is harmful because it imposes costs on society.
▪ Even under these extreme circumstances, inflation imposes some costs on a society.
court
▪ Police fear thieves are turning to car crime because the courts are imposing tougher penalties for burglary and robbery.
▪ The board also urged the courts to impose the maximum fines on bum landlords.
▪ The courts could impose a probation order.
▪ The condition which the court imposed was in the very terms subsequently incorporated in paragraph 33 of Buckley J.'s order.
▪ Though flogging was restricted, the length of sentences which lower courts were empowered to impose was doubled.
▪ This charge automatically takes the case to a higher court, which can impose the highest penalties.
▪ Police courts could impose sentences of up to six months, and district courts of up to two years.
▪ The courts may also impose a discretionary life sentence for certain other serious crimes.
curfew
▪ On May 18 the state authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
▪ Governor Wilson declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and called in reinforcements from the California Highway Patrol.
▪ On March 27, as the national conference got under way, the government imposed a curfew and banned strikes and demonstrations.
▪ Two people died and at least 19 were injured, and the government imposed an all-night curfew.
▪ On May 8 the government imposed a curfew on the city.
▪ On Sept. 9 it imposed a night curfew in large parts of the republic.
deadline
▪ The opposition had imposed a deadline of Aug. 31 for Nabiyev to restore stability or resign.
discipline
▪ It imposes useful discipline on the production of a functional diagram in two ways.
▪ But his rebel government has imposed organization and discipline on the regions he controls.
▪ They can only succeed by imposing long-run discipline upon capitalists.
▪ It is supposed to save money and impose some market discipline on bureaucracy's natural tendency to swell.
▪ Acquaintanceship imposes its own discipline and obligation.
▪ These gold bugs think you want gold standards, because they impose discipline, but who can complain?
▪ His response was to try and impose tough discipline and demand greater results at the same time.
▪ Without moralising or imposing too rigid a discipline, they set some invaluable standards.
duty
▪ Section 41 imposes a duty on the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in most public law proceedings under the Act.
▪ Section 47 imposes a positive duty on investigating authorities to see the child and to take legal action if access is denied.
▪ Whilst still in employment, there was an implied term imposing a duty of good faith.
▪ They would have denied that the conscription law imposed a completely new duty.
▪ In the morning they will journey together to G.Q.G. Meanwhile the night imposes its own duties.
▪ Consider, for example, an Act of Parliament imposing on parents a duty to maintain their young children.
embargo
▪ This was a great mistake, because in 1973 the Arabs did impose an embargo and made it stick.
fine
▪ It imposed fines totalling £328,500 on 105 solicitors, compared with 76 solicitors fined an aggregate of £216,000 the year before.
▪ To impose fines of $ 1 million a day if the company continues to violate the settlement.
▪ Fines were also imposed and crippling fines were threatened.
▪ When no agreement was reached, the agency began imposing the fines Sept. 4.
▪ Both the Reagan and Bush administrations had supported the judge's power to impose the fines.
▪ They have demanded provisions for imposing fines on countries with large deficits after the euro is created.
▪ That was enough for magistrates in the city who imposed fines and costs of almost £900.
▪ The board also urged the courts to impose the maximum fines on bum landlords.
government
▪ But his rebel government has imposed organization and discipline on the regions he controls.
▪ His new government imposed price controls and nationalized businesses.
▪ The government could impose restrictions on trade, grant monopolies to some industries, or favor others with protective laws.
▪ Can governments impose penalties for the failure of this essential public service?
▪ To be realistic, government regula-tions that impose limits on media property ownership inevitably affect media content.
▪ Is not that an extra tax that the Government have imposed on business?
law
▪ When the law imposes obligations it does so by seeking to balance conflicting claims.
▪ In certain cases the law imposes very short time limits within which you must act.
▪ Some states already have enacted laws that impose civil liability for failure to report.
▪ Where that popular base does not exist such laws are only imposed on the population with great difficulty, if at all.
▪ States are increasingly enacting laws imposing liability for failure to report on those mandated to file child abuse reports.
▪ Given this reality, the law imposes duties upon the doctor which exist independently of agreement.
▪ In his decision, Reinhardt said voters had not been properly informed that the law imposed a lifetime ban on candidates.
liability
▪ Some states already have enacted laws that impose civil liability for failure to report.
▪ Because of these difficulties, governments might decide to impose strict liability for compensation on the practitioners of in vitro fertilisation.
▪ States are increasingly enacting laws imposing liability for failure to report on those mandated to file child abuse reports.
▪ And the question of efficiency, whether imposing such liability would reduce accidents or contribute to a more efficient use of resources.
▪ Such liability will be all the more possible in states that explicitly impose liability by statute, such as Michigan and Montana.
▪ Each of the three non-contractual areas of law imposing duties and liabilities is considered below.
▪ It imposes legal liabilities on a person who has acted carelessly.
limit
▪ The service you get is fairly standard, with no apparent limits imposed on storage space or attachment size.
▪ It also calls for a rigid speed limit to be imposed on motorists and for short-term parking bays to be made available.
▪ The limits are imposed after futures prices drop sharply.
▪ The limit had been imposed on Jan. 22 when the controversial withdrawal of high-denomination banknotes was announced.
▪ Casualty Co. in a dispute over limits states have imposed on auto insurance rates.
▪ No referee, no rules regarding ethics, no time limits were imposed - certainly Queensbury rules were scoffed at.
▪ Traditional teaching is relative rather than fixed because of our greater understanding of the limits imposed by culture.
limitation
▪ Countries differ however in the extent to which they wish to impose limitations.
▪ It will not impose time limitation.
▪ Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations, both on programmers and hardware.
▪ If a neural network system is good at recall functions only, then it is necessary to impose constraints and limitations.
▪ A different set of rules then operate to impose limitations on the expression of aggro.
▪ While the courts have jealously protected an individual's right to notice, they have imposed limitations upon it.
▪ There is good evidence that these imperfections are imposed by performance limitations.
▪ Normally, such an agreement will impose strict limitations and involve a fee or royalty payable to the artist.
moratorium
▪ But then congress intervened by imposing a two year moratorium on all dumping.
▪ In 1992, Mr Mitterrand imposed a moratorium on the explosions and urged other nuclear powers to follow suit.
▪ The administration has imposed a three-year moratorium on federal minority set-aside programs.
▪ In 1972, the Legislature, under pressure from anti-hunting groups and other wildlife associations, imposed a moratorium on hunting lions.
▪ A second option would impose the moratorium throughout the whole city for the same time period.
▪ Supervisor Mabel Teng is also readying legislation to impose an 18-month moratorium on owner move-in evictions of elderly tenants.
▪ George Ryan, a Republican, has imposed a moratorium on executions.
▪ So state regulators are imposing a moratorium on new sewer hookups.
obligation
▪ When the law imposes obligations it does so by seeking to balance conflicting claims.
▪ Neither imposes an obligation to worry about the welfare of the other.
▪ Its purpose is to impose an obligation upon Norwich to secure that Winchester complies with the Rules.
▪ Although the Benedictine rule imposed specific obligations upon each individual, it was rarely severe to the point of austerity.
▪ The implied term imposing an obligation on the employee after the termination of his employment was more restricted.
▪ Note that the court can only impose an obligation on a responsible person with that person's consent.
▪ It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
▪ These laws impose obligations on citizens, and obedience to these obligations is enforced by the courts.
order
▪ The courts could impose a probation order.
▪ The next stage is equally easy: imposing some sort of order on your list.
▪ Another possibility is that the court could impose a community service order.
▪ The imposed moral order held precedence over the claims of both truth and love.
▪ The judge imposed a further injunctive order in similar terms to that of 12 September 1991.
▪ Above all, it imposed norms of order and limitation to conceal the Dionysiac revelation of contradiction and excess as ultimate realities.
▪ But, at the same time, the apparatus of the modern State imposed a new order which strictly limited such freedom.
penalty
▪ Can governments impose penalties for the failure of this essential public service?
▪ The Times reported that judges were now permitted to impose the death penalty even though a jury had refused to do so.
▪ In certain circumstances the Revenue can impose a penalty of up to £60 a day.
▪ Many federal contracts, for example, impose penalties when the government does not pay promptly.
▪ Police fear thieves are turning to car crime because the courts are imposing tougher penalties for burglary and robbery.
▪ Equitable imposed a 10 % penalty on any policyholder wanting to take money out.
policy
▪ There has also been a tendency to impose new curricula and policies without sufficient preparation of teachers and administrators.
▪ Can schools impose an inflexible grading policy on teachers?
▪ By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making, however, the government has disturbed a number of interests.
power
▪ The local authorities' powers to impose conditions are very wide.
▪ Energy crisis Periodic power cuts were imposed from Oct. 29 after electricity supplies from the Soviet Union were suddenly suspended.
▪ All you're doing is carrying out a sentence that the courts no longer have the power to impose.
▪ Where that fails, the Secretary of State will have powers to arbitrate and impose a contract on the parties.
▪ Both the Reagan and Bush administrations had supported the judge's power to impose the fines.
▪ And it could also have the power to impose a temporary suspension of currency convertibility.
▪ The teams were to operate by consensus, each having the power to veto decisions, none with the power to impose.
punishment
▪ A simple majority vote is required to impose the punishment.
quota
▪ Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas.
regulation
▪ A requirement imposed by regulations shall not apply to any follower of the Sikh religion while he is wearing a turban.
▪ The bureaucrats imposed rules and regulations on big business.
requirement
▪ Margin Rule 5-28 imposes various requirements in relation to margined contingent liability transactions.
▪ S.-imposed requirements, most having to do with eliminating programs, cutting staff and slashing budgets.
▪ Nor does the Act impose a requirement of advance notice of meetings and assemblies.
▪ Since all variables are non-negative this imposes the requirement.
▪ Article 5 imposes the plain language requirement and the obligation to interpret ambiguities in the way most favourable to the consumer.
▪ It does not distinguish between different types of hearsay or impose any procedural requirements for its admission.
▪ After consultation with the chief officer of police, the power to impose requirements in relation to the conduct of the investigation. 3.
▪ Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks.
restraint
▪ The will or settlement may impose the restraint on anticipation.
▪ An injunction imposes prior restraint, by stopping presses from rolling and film from running.
restriction
▪ Third, no restrictions have to be imposed on the form of the hazard.
▪ The landlord will have no need to retain day-to-day control over it and any necessary restrictions can be imposed by covenant.
▪ Farming policy in Cumbria was greatly influenced by the heavy rainfall and the restrictions imposed by the National Park Regulations.
▪ Monopolistic restrictions are imposed where, on purely technical grounds, there could be abundance.
▪ This restriction is often imposed to avoid prolonged arguments between seller and buyer.
▪ In their rush, Clinton and Congress allowed draconian restrictions to be imposed on refugees.
rule
▪ If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife.
▪ The bureaucrats imposed rules and regulations on big business.
▪ No referee, no rules regarding ethics, no time limits were imposed - certainly Queensbury rules were scoffed at.
▪ By midnight, there was no indication that Milosevic had imposed direct rule in the capital.
▪ The decision to impose direct rule followed the expiry of Governor's rule at midnight on July 18.
▪ It imposed the rule of rationality in exactly that place most likely to resist it.
▪ He can also try to impose emergency rule.
▪ In conjunction with a state of emergency the President might also impose temporary direct presidential rule over a union republic.
sanction
▪ But do the sanctions currently imposed around the world show any such sign of working?
▪ The strongest sanction that could be imposed against the three is expulsion from the university.
▪ It was also agreed that should either party fail to comply, sanctions would be imposed.
▪ But meaningless sanctions, imposed by rote and continued long after their failure is manifest, are different.
sentence
▪ This court, usually consisting of three members, increases to five members if the sentence imposes death or mutilation.
▪ The first was the great variation among sentences imposed by different judges upon similarly situated offenders.
▪ Any action must be taken within 28 days of the sentence being imposed.
▪ He has about four months remaining in a sentence imposed by a federal judge in Boston June 15, 1994.
▪ The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed.
▪ The lesser verdict may also assist the judge in sentencing, and help the public to understand the sentence imposed.
▪ The court's general prosecutor had unsuccessfully asked for 19 death sentences to be imposed.
▪ Judge Alistair Bell re-activated the suspended sentence and imposed another six-month term to run concurrently.
standard
▪ The directive does not impose any stricter standards than the 1908 Act.
▪ They should not use the excuse of a different technology as a rationale for imposing different standards on speech.
▪ The catering business itself is regulated by various Acts of Parliament which impose duties and standards of conduct that must be observed.
▪ It was suggested above that the duty of care is best conceived as imposing essentially procedural standards.
▪ But why did society voluntarily accept the constraints imposed by the gold standard?
state
▪ On May 18 the state authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew.
▪ No participating State will attempt to impose military domination over any other participating State. 14.
▪ Governor Wilson declared a state of emergency, imposed a curfew and called in reinforcements from the California Highway Patrol.
▪ The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent.
▪ First, there is the residency requirement already mentioned, which member states can impose when handing out subsidies.
▪ But, at the same time, the apparatus of the modern State imposed a new order which strictly limited such freedom.
▪ The state-imposed marketisation of the Thatcherites was a contradiction in terms.
▪ Casualty Co. in a dispute over limits states have imposed on auto insurance rates.
tax
▪ In imposing taxes for state purposes, they are not doing what Congress is empowered to do.
▪ Reluctant to impose yet another local tax, the finance ministry has remained strongly opposed to the new measures.
▪ The way to raise energy prices is to impose a tax.
▪ Registered companies are exempted from all taxes on approved activities, and no currency or exchange restrictions are imposed.
▪ The District Court believed that it had no alternative to imposing a tax increase.
▪ Would it be a valid objection to an Order made under this statute that it imposes a tax?
▪ The District Court therefore abused its discretion in imposing the tax itself.
view
▪ Even if you had different views, you felt you should not impose those views on a significant minority.
▪ Truman did not threaten to use force to impose his views.
▪ The department is therefore able to impose central, corporate views, on to the business units at an early stage.
▪ He effortlessly and directly states what he believes without the least hint of imposing a point of view on his listener.
▪ In that sense, the poor Law was a mechanism whereby one class imposed a particular view of family responsibility upon another.
▪ Secondly, the judiciary can impose limits on whose views should be taken into account when discretion is exercised.
▪ Again these changes would not enable a requesting State to impose its own views on a requested State.
▪ Here the courts see themselves as charged with evaluating such concepts further and, when necessary, imposing their own views.
will
▪ In neither case is there any additional disciplinary power with which the employer or customer are able to impose their will.
▪ Vaught is also reluctant to impose his will upon others.
▪ He had imposed his will, or the will of the Scarabae on her.
▪ In the past, national presidents have imposed their will on the party, not only determining policies but leaders.
▪ An army of Slaanesh worshippers would be available to impose his will on the leaderless Elves.
▪ I want to avoid contaminating the answer by imposing my will but simply watch patiently and see.
▪ When his fields are starved of minerals through self-indulgent agriculture, he tries to impose his own will upon the land.
▪ The striking thing about Judge Jackson's thinking was his reluctance in imposing the government's will on a private company.
■ VERB
seek
▪ The Employment Service should always ask employers seeking to impose age restrictions on recruitment if these are strictly necessary.
▪ I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us.
▪ They sought to impose a single currency on all Community states.
▪ It seemed not to seek to impose itself but merely to mark the occasion.
▪ He is seeking to impose a method.
▪ Is he not seeking to impose another burden on our people?
▪ Central government seeks to impose its will not merely through legislation but also through the communication of large amounts of guidance.
▪ Recent criticism has become increasingly interested in the institutions which seek to impose controls on what we can say about the Renaissance.
try
▪ Minton did not consciously try to impose his style on others, but respected the individuality of his students.
▪ Witness the tax on Temple property he tried to impose just after the old king died two years ago.
▪ Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us.
▪ When his fields are starved of minerals through self-indulgent agriculture, he tries to impose his own will upon the land.
▪ Mr. Caborn I am not trying to impose anything.
▪ Clause 6 is a clause which sellers often try to impose.
▪ His response was to try and impose tough discipline and demand greater results at the same time.
▪ If I had tried to impose either of the above on another class I doubt the drama would work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ No, we'll find a motel - we don't want to impose.
▪ Teachers should try to avoid imposing their own beliefs on their students.
▪ Thousands of troops were sent to the region to impose order before the election.
▪ Within days of being appointed office manager he had imposed his own working methods.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he hated to impose for an entire week, with Marge nearly six months pregnant.
▪ Publication of the article breached of an injunction imposed in 1997.
▪ Section 47 imposes a positive duty on investigating authorities to see the child and to take legal action if access is denied.
▪ The changes imposed were just about as much as the Services could take at that time without loss of morale and fighting efficiency.
▪ These gold bugs think you want gold standards, because they impose discipline, but who can complain?
▪ This was a great mistake, because in 1973 the Arabs did impose an embargo and made it stick.
▪ Vaught is also reluctant to impose his will upon others.
▪ We did not want to impose this restriction here but wanted to let the data reveal individual preferences.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impose

Impose \Im*pose"\, v. i. To practice tricks or deception. To impose on or To impose upon,

  1. to pass or put a trick on; to delude; to cheat; to defraud. ``He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things.''
    --Locke.

  2. to place an unwelcome burden or obligation on (another person); as, she imposed on her friend to drive her daughter to school.

  3. to take unfair advantage of (a person, a friendship); as, he imposed on his friendship with The Mayor to gain business.

Impose

Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposing.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]

  1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

    Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket.
    --Chapman.

  2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.

    What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
    --Shak.

    Death is the penalty imposed.
    --Milton.

    Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws.
    --Waller.

  3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

  4. (Print.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

Impose

Impose \Im*pose"\, n. A command; injunction. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impose

late 14c., "to lay (a crime, etc.) to the account of," from Old French imposer "put, place; impute, charge, accuse" (c.1300), from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + poser "put, place" (see pose (v.1)). Sense of "to lay on as a burden" first recorded 1580s. Related: Imposed; imposing.

Wiktionary
impose

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To establish or apply by authority. 2 (context intransitive English) to be an inconvenience 3 to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

Related phrases:
WordNet
impose

  1. v. compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: enforce]

  2. impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit]

  3. impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy]

Usage examples of "impose".

Only Abel kept his composure and calmly imposed silence on his people again.

They are those with great Talent who wish to be duarch, and who aspire to being Archon one day if the master scepter comes to Acorus, and they must have some check imposed on them to ensure their loyalty.

Were Adams to be elected, warned the Boston Chronicle, the principle of hereditary succession would be imposed on America, to make way for John Quincy.

Acutely conscious of the mistakes Adams had made as Vice President, Jefferson, when presiding in the Senate, never talked out of turn, or tried to impose his own opinion from the chair, conduct all in keeping with his nature.

They were all accomplished alpinists, but were they ready for the brutal toll that the great mountains could impose?

Here, again, is another resemblance to the conductor, who can impose his own will on the orchestra, altho he may not be able to play one of the instruments in it, and altho he may be quite incapable of composing.

Donhauser, imposing in her elegant yet practical satin jumpsuit, was the Anabaptist envoy to our Hope Nation colony.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black, the sun gleaming on the strong lineaments of his brow arching disdainfully as a decrepit horse and buggy bearing an aging woman and a handsome intense young man standing to snap his whip imperiously came close for an exchange of unheard words to be pointed scornfully on their way, glimpsed from behind a curtain by a ravishingly beautiful young woman in negligee in their retreat back down the drive.

Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion by an imposing liveried black there he is!

SPIRIT OF THE PITIES So he fulfils the inhuman antickings He thinks imposed upon him.

That Ardea should have lost all scruples, and that he should wish to sell his title of a Roman prince at as high a price as possible, to no matter what bidder, is so much the more a matter of indifference, for we Venetians do not allow ourselves to be imposed upon by the Roman nobility.

Omnius had concluded that atomics were an inefficient and nonselective way to impose control, and radioactive cleanup afterward was difficult.

The many generations which had served under Avernian civilisation had often expressed a longing to escape from the sense of futility, from a doctrine of minimalism, imposed by the concept of Obligation Earth.

The single fifty-watt bulb had no doubt been imposed by her employers for the same reasons of economy that had preserved the integrity of the whole space, but the gentle ingratiation of its dim glow, reflected back up off the worn flagstones, was beyond price.

Bahima conqueror of the fourteenth or fifteenth century imposed a strict prohibition of intermarriage, though sometimes permitting himself a Bairu concubine.