Synonym: charge, force, levy, place, put, set, tax. Antonym: free, liberate. Similar words: compose, import, important, pose, composition, importantly, expose, oppose. Meaning: [ɪm'pəʊz] v. 1. compel to behave in a certain way 2. impose something unpleasant 3. impose and collect.
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91. The plaintiff can now impose conditions upon or even revoke the permission it has granted.
92. That will not impose any great burden upon the public purse.
93. For example, the enactment of import quotas, designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
94. Even though California banks are not rushing to announce new ATM fees, researcher Shields expects many will impose them.
95. The governor of Leyte island blamed the government for failing to impose a total logging ban.
96. In the past some local authorities used this opportunity to impose conditions binding contractors to council policies.
97. The question is whether remedial action would impose an unacceptable economic burden.
98. The courts may also impose a discretionary life sentence for certain other serious crimes.
99. To impose fines of $ 1 million a day if the company continues to violate the settlement.
100. Clinton also wants to impose budget controls in case those market forces are out-muscled by rising costs.
101. Resources of the information system will impose constraints upon the nature of the indexing language.
102. The showdown came when the Andover people helped impose a ban on prostitution.
103. An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
104. For example, they can not impose a custodial sentence that is longer than six months in respect of a single offence.
105. This was a great mistake, because in 1973 the Arabs did impose an embargo and made it stick.
106. Environmental groups deplored the failure of the convention to impose an absolute ban on the dumping of radioactive waste.
107. These have to be settled, if necessary, by a process of reconciliation whereby the budget committees impose specific ceilings.
108. If we impose too stringent constraints on the match, then we will fail to access the correct word.
109. Lawyers for Attorney General Dan Lungren argued that the initiative did not impose a lifetime ban.
110. You should note that the penal codes of some nations impose time limits for the reporting of crime.
111. We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn, and we expect saintliness from them as well.
112. This government knows it can win court cases confirming its legal right to impose a solution on the mayor.
113. For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions.
114. The statute may impose a duty on an employer to provide safety equipment and ensure that it is used.
115. Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good?
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116. Any attempt to impose some sort of external watchdog that might apply a degree of accountability is rejected as compromising its secrecy.
117. Finally, the courts have ruled that school boards can impose economic sanctions on teachers who go on strike.
118. Where that fails, the Secretary of State will have powers to arbitrate and impose a contract on the parties.
119. It is supposed to save money and impose some market discipline on bureaucracy's natural tendency to swell.
120. Polanyi would propose a world environment organisation with the right to impose sanctions on countries that refuse to cut emissions.
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