Emily V. Gordon

A lot of people end up getting married more out of expectation than out of passion for each other, but if your options have ever been, 'We either get married or break up,' be careful. Marriage should be a new addition you add to the house that is your relationship, not the structure you impose on the house once it's already built.

American Writer

James Frey

I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

Jack Ma

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

Chinese Businessman

Jack Keane

When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.

American General

Thomas Sowell

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

American Economist

Zico

For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.

Brazilian Coach

Franz Kafka

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Novelist

Naguib Mahfouz

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Egyptian Novelist

Sergei Lavrov

Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians.

Russian Diplomat

Avigdor Lieberman

It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.

Israeli Politician

Imposing something often implies authority or power making one submit to a rule or decision.

Authority Connotation

When something is imposed, it may not be well-received as it did not come from a group's consensus.

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In business, 'impose' can indicate a leadership style that does not invite collaboration.

Leadership Inference

Imposing one's will can be seen negatively, suggesting a disregard for others' input or opinions.

Negative Perception

'Imose' in legal contexts indicates the application of a legal requirement or punishment.

Legal Obligation

Something imposed in law must be adhered to; it is not optional.

Mandatory Nature

Using 'impose' in social contexts often implies a lack of sensitivity or awareness about others' boundaries.

Social Sensitivity

To 'impose on' someone indicates a breach of social etiquette or an overstep of casualness.

Breach of Etiquette

In historical or literary contexts, 'impose' carries a formal tone of decrees issued by authorities.

Archaic Usage

Literary uses often reflect formal use associated with power and governance, not personal interactions.

Formality and Power

 just been absolutely transformative I was here three weeks before I was scheduled to argue two cases at the United States Supreme Court where we were asking the court to ban death and prison sentences imposed on children the u.s. is still the only country in the world that legalized its life

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 Some people broadcast the whole time. Try not to do that. That's called sodcasting, Imposing your sound on people around you carelessly and inconsiderately. Not nice. Of course, where this all comes into play most of all is when you've got something really important to do.

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 This is a little bit like giving the same description to three different sketch artists from all around the world. If they all produce a very similar-looking face, then we can start to become confident that they're not imposing their own cultural biases on the drawings.

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 as a masterpiece of dystopian fiction. Dystopian fiction as a genre amplifies troubling features of the world around us and imagines the consequences of taking them to an extreme. In many dystopian stories, the government imposes constrictions onto unwilling subjects.

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 it may be best to simply foster the imposter. Brood parasitism tends to evoke horror and disdain. But why should it be thought of as any more objectionable than predator-prey relationships? And is it ever productive to impose human morals onto other animals?

Would you raise the bird...

 intensifies the new goal is to cause an individual to become subservient to an imposed control to the point where he will perform acts against his will and then have no memory of the act the search for a real-life manchurian candidate

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 by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to break free, not to accept the limitations imposed by the color of their skin or by the beliefs of those that surround them.

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 millions of dark huge winged creatures dominate the skies they're an imposing sight but these black flying foxes are just big harmless bats the biggest in the world their wingspan can reach a whopping six feet

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 Cap and trade can’t solve every environmental problem. But by using scientific consensus to guide policy, adopting efficient technology, and being unafraid to impose reasonable costs for pollution,

Whatever happened to...

 Often when we're filming our mammal cousins, it's very tempting to impose our own human anthropocentric values on their actions, and that is, I think, a mistake.

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