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impose upon

verb as in lumber

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I’ve never much gone for the sexed-up verbiage we impose upon non-alcoholic drinks.

From Salon

“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.

No sitting president has attended a Super Bowl, mainly because of the strict security requirements authorities would need to impose upon the tens of thousands of fans.

With security agents searching for him, Medvedev was forced to go into hiding to avoid the brutal kind of retribution he had seen the group impose upon deserters in Ukraine.

From BBC

The fine appears to be a slap on the wrist compared to the punishment plaintiffs ultimately want the federal court to impose upon Google.

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

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