imposition

"I think the family tax, the family farm imposition, was a mistake," the former Labour minister said, adding it "touched a nerve".

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

For Antigone this is an imposition of political power over divine law, and she puts her life on the line to uphold her obligation to her family and faith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He said that the imposition of 50% tariffs on some $20 billion worth of Canadian goods would be paused for three days while negotiations continued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

He informed the commanding officer that not only was it an imposition to have stand-up desks, but that they sloped so steeply that the books fell off.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The film is lightning in a bottle, magic that only stands to have its smoke dispersed and mirrors cracked by the unnecessary impositions of the dreaded Hollywood sequel.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

That heritage gave both him and the backcountry settlers he epitomized their combative sense of equality and dignity—rooted in the history of British impositions on their ancestral lands in Ulster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

“We don’t want impositions on the Mercosur,” Lula said in a live broadcast on social media.

From Reuters ● Jul. 4, 2023

It is time to protect everyone, including the fools, from their own foolish behavior, and put an end to the impositions.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

Even the most ardent anticommunists among them regarded the oath as an uncomfortable reminder of the impositions on academic freedom they had suffered in their homelands.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik