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View definitions for impose on

impose on

verb as in abuse

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verb as in milk

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"The licence fee has many difficulties as we know but the licence fee has been vulnerable to actions by the government... to impose on the BBC duties that take money away from making content, most egregiously the World Service. We suddenly had to find £300m."

From BBC

The narrative that Trump and his people were trying to impose on this horrible event did not match up to what the motivation turned out to really be.

From Salon

Our history shows us the damage that a runaway Supreme Court can impose on our democracy.

From Slate

The regulations were just one of several rules that Wall Street’s main watchdog has been seeking to impose on hedge funds and private equity firms.

But destinations need to find ways to counteract what Ms. Epler Wood calls “the invisible burden” of tourism, which includes strains on a community’s infrastructure, utilities and housing stock, as well as tourists’ carbon footprint and any challenges they might impose on residents’ daily lives.

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

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