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imposition

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Britain’s new subject peoples knew it, too, and rebelled at the imposition of colonial rule.

From Time

“They could issue long-term bonds for the modernization, and by doing that within 10 years of the imposition of the tax, they get to keep the entire tax,” Cabrera said.

If the Supreme Court overturns Rostker, they’ll surely fight against any imposition of compulsory registration or service for women.

Instead, by 2019, imposition of the tax had resulted in a decline in the number of internet users, failed revenue targets, and social unrest.

From Quartz

Many have called for the imposition and enforcement of more stringent and onerous regulation and taxation.

From Time

A term-limits law is a clear imposition of an added qualification.

And so swift was the imposition of the curfew that some foreigners were taken by surprise.

Later, when he purchases a massive TV set for her living room, she's offended by the imposition.

Why, an imposition on business owners to run their factories as they saw fit, you socialist!

The result was the imposition of the most draconian inspections regime in history.

This provision also had the effect of preventing the imposition of taxation upon the community by means of railway rates.

For this was the preposterous nature of the imposition, and she claimed to have given birth to no less than eighteen of them.

Just at this juncture Eric came in, having been delayed by Mr Gordon, while he rigidly inspected the imposition.

Mr. Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced sundry resolutions relative to the imposition of stamp duty in America.

Henceforth they resisted the imposition by Parliament of external as well as internal taxes.

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On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imposition, such as: artifice, cheating, con, craftiness, dissimulation, and fraud.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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