impose upon
Example Sentences
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A sense of discomfort in the roles their inheritance and their culture impose upon them is shared by all the major characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
“The film is about how complicated physical borders might be yet nothing can be more complicated than the emotional and moral borders that you impose upon yourself,” the jury said in its citation.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023
A censure resolution is the highest form of reprimand House members can impose upon a lawmaker before considering an expulsion measure.
From Washington Times • Nov. 17, 2021
Simply put, companies are not concerned with the costs their satellites impose upon space as a common resource.
From Slate • May 19, 2021
God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
