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1. He might be trying to impose martial law over the council, bringing on a final showdown
2. They tried keeping a dog, but found the urban sprawl too bleak a thing to impose on such an innocent creature
3. In spite of that, in my time the high priestess was more likely to impose a death sentence than in this time, but it did happen even now
4. ' he said sternly 'That or impose a forfeit
5. “I really couldn’t impose,” he said in sudden panic, remembering how he had been forbidden to do the same thing again even if it was what a native would do
6. Jim was the only person she felt she could impose upon – for the use of his phone
7. the one species of labour, impose the necessity of an apprenticeship, though with different
8. It so far depends not so much upon the quantity which they produce, as upon that which they do not manufacture; and upon the restraints which they may or may not think proper to impose upon the exportation of this sort of rude produce
9. assume the whole and is able to impose its will
10. the one hand, it was a foolish to impose the
11. It's clear that it does not impose
12. They became, however, so considerable, that the sovereign could impose no tax upon them, besides the stated farm-rent of the town, without their own consent
13. Revenge, in this case, naturally dictates retaliation, and that we should impose the like duties and prohibitions upon the importation of some or all of their manufactures into ours
14. How far it may be proper to impose taxes upon the importation of foreign goods, in order not to prevent their importation, but to raise a revenue for government, I shall consider hereafter when I come to treat of taxes
15. It would, besides, impose only one tax upon the people, that which they must contribute in order to pay the bounty
16. would ever impose such harsh conditions on its followers
17. But this part of the world had a unique mindset, not swayed by the pressures to build high (logically so as not to impose on green areas)
18. Those systems, therefore, which preferring agriculture to all other employments, in order to promote it, impose restraints upon manufactures and foreign trade, act contrary to the very end which they propose, and indirectly discourage that very species of industry which they mean to promote
19. Notwithstanding the most upright intentions, the unavoidable partiality of their directors to particular branches of the manufacture, of which the undertakers mislead and impose upon them, is a real discouragement to the rest, and necessarily breaks, more or less, that natural proportion which would otherwise establish itself between judicious industry and profit, and which, to the general industry of the country, is of all encouragements the greatest and the most effectual
20. To impose upon any man the necessity of teaching, year after year, in any particular branch of science seems in reality to be the most effectual method for rendering him completely master of it himself
21. First, the levying of it may require a great number of officers, whose salaries may eat up the greater part of the produce of the tax, and whose perquisites may impose another additional tax upon the people
22. In order to remedy this inconveniency, government has found no better expedient, than to impose upon the whole generality an additional tax of a hundred and twenty thousand livres
23. Some of the little Italian states which are situated upon the Po, and the rivers which run into it, derive some revenue from duties of this kind, which are paid altogether by foreigners, and which, perhaps, are the only duties that one state can impose upon the subjects of another, without obstruction in any respect, the industry or commerce of its own
24. In Great Britain, the annual land and malt taxes are regularly anticipated every year, by virtue of a borrowing clause constantly inserted into the acts which impose them
25. I, more or less, tried to impose my values on him
26. We must impose the teachings of our Lord on to your people
27. Item: The Boston Globe and other prominent Massachusetts papers endorse the homosexual lifestyle and the attempt to impose it on innocent children
28. There was once a time when any foreign country that tried to impose this sort of corruption anywhere in America would have been confronted by a Declaration of War
29. ) After all, how important is „saving capitalism from itself" in America when compared with the slaughter of millions in order to impose
30. Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively
31. Its flawed assumptions oftentimes fail to consider, however, that every Individual is subject to his or her own private set of moral and ethical assumptions that are naturally resistant to categorical imperatives or the conscientious ―merits‖ of narrow-minded viewpoints that seek to impose their (myopic) moral authority on others
32. Such examples exceeding the scope of this letter, should properly inform and caution the sensibilities of thoughtful individuals wary of the potential (long-term) effects such draconian measures might otherwise impose on the American People
33. Such upheavals sought to impose impractical standards and designs that many of their offspring have been unable, had they been so inclined, to live up to
34. Further legal restrictions would (merely) impose stricter licensing requirements on law-abiding individuals who would purchase them through normal, legal channels, to begin with
35. A friend and I were recently engaged in an after dinner conversation concerning the potential economic fallout that the war in Iraq would likely impose on France
36. Using this method she could impose her physical and mental reality temporarily upon the animal, possessing its body
37. US troops must only be sent to end the loss of human life, not to preserve profit nor US power nor impose US control posing as “democracy
38. You know, the moment they catch wind of what you’re doing, the Americans will threaten again to withheld aid and impose restrictions on trade, and you won’t be able to keep a vote
39. legal theories and would impose crippling costs on the U
40. promulgated, potentially could impose on the order of $17 billion in new capital costs on papermakers
41. force taxpayers to fund abortions, and impose unconstitutional mandates on every American
42. included a statement declaring the EO “does not impose any justiciable obligations on the executive
43. As I’ve stated in earlier chapters: those who seek to impose a theory, no matter how complete it appears, as if it were fully proven fact are dead wrong
44. They had their sterile little life, and they tried to impose it on the world, a clitless woman and a dickless man solving the problems of the animal world in their local community
45. to impose toll, tribute, or custom, on them
46. We camped out on the beach, not wishing to impose on such grudging hospitality
47. have authority to impose anything on them
48. There is too much money involved in thousands of grants for researchers, and multi-millions of dollars in profits for those who manipulate the levers of the “green economy” they hope to impose on the nation
49. By the turn of the 20th century the Justices began to impose their views of social and economic justice with ever increasing frequency
50. Well, says Justice Breyer, it is part of his duty “to impose structure on madness
1. With this sort of mind-set, retiring, changing jobs, or moving to a smaller place are not likely to significantly reduce stress levels – the stress will be there whether it is imposed externally, or whether you have to manufacture it
2. “I have no way of telling if I am in a simulated universe transmitted from the dark bodies, or if I am in an event horizon imposed by someone in the crew of Gordon’s Lamp
3. “Then we do what we have to do to live within the rules imposed on us here, like we had to obey the laws of physics in three-d reality as a mortal
4. It is not possible to produce these waves outside the atomic nucleus because of the limitation on wavelength imposed by the speed of light
5. He was willing to believe it was a different soul, even one imposed via RNAcid
6. policy that Hartman had imposed
7. By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon
8. second, he had fulfilled the penance imposed upon him at
9. tithes – especially those imposed on sheep
10. Though it is not very probable that any part of a tax, which is not only imposed upon one of the most proper subjects of taxation, a mere luxury and superfluity, but which affords so very important a revenue as the tax upon silver, will ever be given up as long as it is possible to pay it; yet the same impossibility of paying it, which, in 1736
11. be imposed by force, the war is as divine as
12. had been high educated in France and imposed their
13. For them, Christianity was imposed from top
14. that I’ve served the penance imposed on me,’ he said,
15. It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public
16. He imposed in this way a taxing according with
17. by the citizens, imposed to the King
18. But if he has a lease for along term of years, he is altogether independent; and his landlord must not expect from him even the most trifling service, beyond what is either expressly stipulated in the lease, or imposed upon him by the common and known law of the country
19. The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry, is when some tax is imposed at home upon the produce of the latter
20. In this case, it seems reasonable that an equal tax should be imposed upon the like produce of the former
21. Supposing, however, in the mean time, that they have this effect, and they have it undoubtedly, this general enhancement of the price of all commodities, in consequence of that labour, is a case which differs in the two following respects from that of a particular commodity, of which the price was enhanced by a particular tax immediately imposed upon it
22. Such taxes, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth, and the inclemency of the heavens, and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been most generally imposed
23. In this consisted a great part of the policy of Mr Colbert, who, notwithstanding his great abilities, seems in this case to have been imposed upon by the sophistry of merchants and manufacturers, who are always demanding a monopoly against their countrymen
24. That minister, by the tariff of 1667, imposed very high duties upon a great number of foreign manufactures
25. Taxes imposed with a view to prevent, or even to diminish importation, are evidently as destructive of the revenue of the customs as of the freedom of trade
26. Higher duties are imposed upon the wines of France than upon those of Portugal, or indeed of any other country
27. the first not having been thought a sufficient discouragement, was imposed upon all French goods, except brandy ; together with a new duty of five-and-twenty pounds upon the ton of French wine, and another of fifteen pounds upon the ton of French vinegar
28. which have been imposed upon all, or the greater part, of the goods enumerated in the book of rates
29. The French, in their turn, have, I believe, treated our goods and manufactures just as hardly; though I am not so well acquainted with the particular hardships which they have imposed upon them
30. To allow the merchant to draw back upon exportation, either the whole, or a part of whatever excise or inland duty is imposed upon domestic industry, can never occasion the exportation of a greater quantity of goods than what would have been exported had no duty been imposed
31. By the second of the rules, annexed to the act of parliament, which imposed what is now called the old subsidy, every merchant, whether English or alien
32. The duties imposed by this act of parliament were, at that time, the only duties upon the importation of foreign goods
33. The duties which have been imposed since the old subsidy, are, the greater part of them, wholly drawn back upon exportation
34. Several of the other duties, too which were imposed either at the same time or subsequent to the old subsidy, what is called the additional duty, the new subsidy, the one-third and two-thirds subsidies, the impost 1692, the tonnage on wine, were allowed to be wholly drawn back upon exportation
35. Only a part, therefore of the duty called the impost on wine, and no part of the twenty-five pounds the ton upon French wines, or of the duties imposed in 1745, in 1763, and in 1778, were allowed to be drawn back upon exportation
36. imposed in 1779 and 1781, upon all the former duties of customs, being allowed to be wholly drawn back upon the exportation of all other goods, were likewise allowed to be drawn back upon that of wine
37. The last duty that has been particularly imposed upon wine, that of 1780, is allowed to be wholly drawn back ; an indulgence which, when so many heavy duties are retained, most probably could never occasion the exportation of a single ton of wine
38. Our country gentlemen, when they imposed the high duties upon the exportation of foreign corn, which in times of moderate plenty amount to a prohibition, and when they established the bounty, seem to have imitated the conduct of our manufacturers
39. They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country
40. Notwithstanding these favourable allegations, however, the following considerations dispose me to believe, that in granting at least one of these bounties, the legislature has been very grossly imposed upon:
41. Some improper regulations, some injudicious restraints, imposed by the servants of the East India Company upon the rice trade, contributed, perhaps, to turn that dearth into a famine
42. They even endeavoured to hinder, as much as possible, any middle man of any kind from coming in between the grower and the consumer; and this was the meaning of the many restraints which they imposed upon the trade of those whom they called kidders, or carriers of corn ; a trade which nobody was allowed to exercise without a licence, ascertaining his qualifications as a man of probity and fair dealing
43. These different duties were imposed, partly by the 22d of Charles II
44. ; and instead of them, a small duty is imposed of only 6d upon the quarter of wheat, and upon that or other grain in proportion
45. When those high duties were imposed, Great Britain was the sole, and she still continues to be, the principal market, to which the sugars of the British colonies could be exported
46. In their present state of improvement, those prohibitions, perhaps, without cramping their industry, or restraining it from any employment to which it would have gone of its own accord, are only impertinent badges of slavery imposed upon them, without any sufficient reason, by the groundless jealousy of the merchants and manufacturers of the mother country
47. In the other colonies, they appointed the revenue officers, who collected the taxes imposed by those respective assemblies, to whom those officers were immediately responsible
48. The limit imposed by ourselves indirectly reduces our capacity to love others
49. supposed or imposed listing of societal expectations
50. the pound was imposed upon the importation of foreign brown linen yarn, instead of much higher duties, to which it had been subjected before, viz
1. It imposes no real hardship upon the masters
2. dominant male imposes himself by force
3. imposes its point of view, the other tried to do
4. He is thus enabled to furnish work to a greater value; and the profit which he makes by it in this way much more than compensates the additional price which the profit of the retailer imposes upon the goods
5. That order of things which necessity imposes, in general, though not in every particular country, is in every particular country promoted by the natural inclinations of man
6. Every such law, therefore, imposes a real tax upon the whole country, not in favour of that particular class of workmen who were injured by our neighbours prohibitions, but of some other class
7. The corn bounty, it is to be observed, as well as every other bounty upon exportation, imposes two different taxes upon the people; first, the tax which they are obliged to contribute, in order to pay the bounty ; and,
8. And though the tax, which that institution imposes upon the whole body of the people, may be very burdensome to those who pay it, it is of very little advantage to those who receive it
9. The colony law, which imposes upon every proprietor the obligation of improving and cultivating, within a limited time, a certain proportion of his lands, and which, in case of failure, declares those neglected lands grantable to any other person; though it has not perhaps been very strictly executed, has, however, had some effect
10. While Great Britain encourages in America the manufacturing of pig and bar iron, by exempting them from duties to which the like commodities are subject when imported from any other country, she imposes an absolute prohibition upon the erection of steel furnaces and slit-mills in any of her American plantations
11. In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper
12. 3, which, without expressly taking away the penalties imposed by former statutes, imposes a new penalty, viz
13. The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war
14. And imposes his power with compulsion
15. This current economic system totally imposes cruel death physical or moral to million of million of people, which it deceives governments and technocrats in the belief in economic fundamentals mistaken and torturing
16. Either, the indian is entitled of being indian, because current society imposes its rules
17. President Obama‘s 2011 budget imposes $36 billion in new taxes on the oil and gas industry and this will further discourage domestic production
18. Congress refuses to obey many of the laws it imposes on or-
19. Love is egotistical, instead, when one person imposes their will on the
20. In the end, after so much indifference and releasing the calipers that courtesy imposes, I yelled at him, holding his arm:
21. of the body; and as that imposes upon Him the additional trouble of
22. The dynamics of living lay in the limitations birth imposes and the possibilities the circumstances of life entails
23. This philosophy of living enriches the self and uplifts the soul, leading to a life of harmony, regardless of the restrictions one's environment imposes
24. As Freud's version imposes childhood sexuality upon adults, so
25. Her name meant she who imposes her will from afar
26. When God hardens the will of someone, that means He imposes His
27. kingdom and the responsibilities she imposes
28. around in statute, imposes a hierarchy, a comparison of people and their needs with
29. At other times, though, the small picture imposes itself
30. Like that father who wittingly or unwittingly imposes a psychic burden of obedience on his unfortunate son’s conscience, so ‘the God’ seems to have succeeded in inculcating a habit of mechanical supplication amongst the Musalmans to everything Islamic
31. So, in the ‘Hereafter’, man’s virility is not subject to the innate limitations biology imposes on him ‘here’! And that could be no less an attraction for the believing Musalmans to crave the ‘Hereafter
32. Every machine, every exercise class and every method of fitness is based on our bodies adapting to the stress exercise imposes
33. Reps and sets are great ways to organize a workout or are they? If you like the structure it imposes and the need to have a goal, then they are great
34. Teaching imposes a great deal more strain than one can imagine
35. If a scientist imposes his ideas by taking the data that agrees with the subject he needs to prove, he is no longer an objective scientist
36. “But all the second hand maladies their condition imposes upon US
37. They represent the fetal I who imposes its will as though it were an absolute, completely invading the space that should belong to the adult I
38. We say that neither the dominant influence of the enchanters and the devils over people nor the hardships which the Almighty imposes upon them are the things that purify or chasten the spirit
39. example, where my city imposes a tax I think is bad for my
40. Any debt could be potentially considered “toxic” if it imposes harm onto the financial position of the holder
41. Absolute Law imposes a set of rules on society so that it does not evolve
42. more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains
43. It is cosmic force, it is God that forms the thought, imposes the will, and imparts the impulse
44. The meaning perspectives our parents and/or caretakers enact and teach us imposes a form on the world and our relationship with it
45. through greater understanding, as opposed to dogma that imposes strictures on behavior through
46. Together, they form a highly effective trap that imposes a mysterious and
47. international financial and banking system that imposes usury on the entire world and impoverishes
48. international banking and economic system and all the evil it imposes upon the world
49. The extreme definiteness with which they stand, now a brilliant white, again yellow, and in some lights red, imposes ideas of durability, of the emergence through the earth of some spiritual energy elsewhere dissipated in elegant trifles
50. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us
1. This is a period of negotiation and not imposing our views
2. I realised fairly quickly that she is jumpy about seeing Stephen with their disagreement unresolved and this house does looks a little imposing … I know I was surprised when Stephen bought it originally, thought it above our touch
3. John was not going to roll over and let Diotrephes keep imposing his will on the
4. Above the massive fireplace that occupied one whole wall, was a portrait of Lord Boras in his youth, an imposing figure even then; the artist capturing the darkness in his eye
5. old house was an imposing frontage with a south facing aspect,
6. Inspired, Harry began sketches of the more remarkable foundations and buildings, trying for himself to devise the methods he might employ if he were to construct the imposing structures
7. He could see that the house was more imposing in appearance than the room it really contained, the tall and detailed arches faced with reliefs in a thulitlanth motif graced the end panes, but they were used only to make high ceilings in most rooms
8. He had no idea what Ava’s ex-lover was like, but he steeled himself for someone as imposing as his home
9. The Guild Merchant’s Hall in Troyes was an imposing
10. street towards the imposing remains of the ancient
11. • With sword, by imposing and constraints, starting
12. means for imposing political will of a nation against the
13. (If bustle is a word less imposing,
14. “You know, the really imposing fortress just over yonder
15. Would you happen to know whereabouts inside said imposing fortress just over yonder?”
16. The two thrones were magnificent and imposing, covered in gold and valuable gemstones
17. Dressed in his royal garb, Nebuchadnezzar was certainly an imposing figure with the sun reflecting off his crown and his fingers decorated with numerous rings of gold
18. It was an imposing figure and stood 60 cubits tall
19. Instead of raising, it would tend to lower the price of the commodity in the home market ; and thereby, instead of imposing a second tax upon the people, it might, at least in part, repay them for what they had contributed to the first
20. Perpetual motion is rhythmic in nature, imposing an inherent order within the apparent order of the Universe
21. As they moved out of sight the youths glanced up at the imposing structure with its round dome sat on a square Roman styled building
22. Great Britain, too, as she confines to her own market some of the most important productions of the colonies, so, in compensation, she gives to some of them an advantage in that market, sometimes by imposing higher duties upon the like productions when imported from other countries, and sometimes by giving bounties upon their importation from the colonies
23. Portugal does not content herself with imposing higher duties upon the importation of tobacco from any other country, but prohibits it under the severest penalties
24. fellow-citizens at home, and is secured in the same manner, by an assembly of the representatives of the people, who claim the sole right of imposing taxes for the support of the colony government
25. The severity of many of the laws which have been enacted for the security of the revenue is very justly complained of, as imposing heavy penalties upon actions which, antecedent to the statutes that declared them to be crimes, had always been understood to be innocent
26. Graziers, separated from one another, and dispersed through all the different corners of the country, cannot, without great difficulty, combine together for the purpose either of imposing monopolies upon their
27. Though by restraining, in some trades, the number of apprentices which can be employed at one time, and by imposing the necessity of a long apprenticeship in all trades, they endeavour, all of them, to confine the knowledge of their respective employments to as small a number as possible ; they are unwilling, however, that any part of this small number should go abroad to instruct foreigners
28. Still, it all seemed a bit imposing to the first-time visitor
29. and, to me, it was an imposing forest of masts and ropes
30. It can never be the interest of those landed nations, if I may call them so, to discourage or distress the industry of such mercantile states, by imposing high duties upon their trade, or upon the commodities which they furnish
31. It was in this manner, by facilitating the acquisition of their military and gymnastic exercises, by encouraging it, and even by imposing upon the whole body of the people the necessity of learning those exercises, that the Greek and Roman republics maintained the martial spirit of their respective citizens
32. It has been taxed indirectly in two different ways; first, by requiring that the deed, containing the obligation to repay, should be written upon paper or parchment which had paid a certain stamp duty, otherwise not to be valid ; secondly, by requiring, under the like penalty of invalidity, that it should be recorded either in a public or secret register, and by imposing certain duties upon such registration
33. It was not easy for Jon to fend off the natives as he was quite attractive and more imposing than the rest of his shipmates
34. One could make the case that America at least in some sense invited the Pearl Harbor attack by imposing the trade embargo on Japan and freezing their financial assets
35. In the centre of the forest, Salverford prison loomed, powerful and imposing
36. The guards approached the large metal door at the foot of the imposing tower and disabled the electronic locking system
37. It looked out to the barren wasteland that lay behind the imposing Ruby Tower, and Raven strained his eyes
38. The office remained the same, though without Hollowcrest’s cool presence, it felt less imposing
39. At that, the Man-pirate called Ironbristles turned over and stood up to his imposing height of six foot, at least
40. “Maldynado, you’ll come with me to the meeting, where I need you to look big and imposing,” Amaranthe said
41. ‖ In what manner, for example, can we be certain of mutual love? Are demonstrable expressions of love sufficient proofs in themselves? Are outward appearances genuine or do such expressions proceed from affected emotions or selfish motive(s)? Does an act of love anticipate a reciprocity of tender feelings or is (that) love for an individual, apart from ―loving‖ that individual, expressed less for its own sake rather than the sake of the beloved? At what juncture does Reason, justified by Faith, provide us with some measure of certainty that we may rely upon without imposing limits or placing conditions on that love?
42. To what extent should any society be willing to compromise its ―individual‖ freedom(s) by imposing limits on such freedoms by
43. The EEC‘s Socialist Agenda has been constructed in a manner that seeks to eliminate (grassroots) autonomy altogether by gradually abolishing (national) social and cultural customs, imposing criminal sanctions against forms of behavior considered inappropriate or incompatible with standards of political correctness, superseding local political and legal authority with supranational (political) bodies and international courts, and (surprise!) imposing membership requirements mandating that each participating nation legalize abortion on demand, to mention few of its initiatives
44. Such differences oftentimes present a number of imposing challenges to individuals wedded to firmly held beliefs who, in every other respect, are genuinely committed to friendship
45. The ―remedial‖ course of action initiated by state and local governments at curbing or eliminating smoking altogether, especially among young teens, by imposing additional excise taxes on cigarettes that would make such purchases cost-prohibitive, are cynical deceptions on the part of politicians on both sides of the political aisle designed to increase revenue for (social) spending programs under the pretext of concern for under-age smoking
46. He was an imposing man, his large frame - although covered with a generous layer of fat - carried enough muscle to ensure that he got the deference he was due
47. While the helpless local people prayed feverishly for a miracle, an imposing animal, with the head of a lion and the tail of a fish, surged from the turbulent seas and fought the ferocious storms until calm was restored”
48. I realized at the same time that this was imposing our cultural expectations on them and their planetary culture
49. It wasn’t overly imposing
50. Just inside the door that Fred had directed me through, was an attractively dressed middle-aged secretary keyboarding report notes into an imposing modern computer