imposed upon

Example Sentences

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Havel calls for people to remove the signs and endorse a different world order than the one imposed upon them.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2026

This is not a law imposed upon the U.S. by someone else.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2026

Her fate has been practically Victorian: a nearly decades-long public judgment of her allegedly declining mental state, followed by quasi-imprisonment via the conservatorship imposed upon her in 2008.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

Being a British colony often meant locals had British laws and customs imposed upon them and lost the ability to govern themselves - as well as experience the arrival of British settlers.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2023

I was learning already from the frantic light in her eyes the strain that the city imposed upon its people.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright