But how; it may be asked, does this belief impose an obligation?
Still, they have the closest alliance with Laws proper, seeing that being armed with a sanction, they impose a duty.
Broadfoot urged with vigour that an order by a superior who was no longer a free agent and who issued it under duress, could impose no obligation of obedience.
Pollock disdained to impose so enviable a duty on a recalcitrant man, and committed to Sale the honourable and welcome service--all the more welcome to that officer because his wife and daughter were among the captives.
Indeed this rule is so universal in its application that many men find it advantageous to impose strict rules on themselves in the regulation of their time and affairs, in order to keep their own spirits under command.
Power to impose customs and excise duties to be in the Federal government and parliament.
They had the King in their power, and felt themselves strong enough toimpose their will on him as law.
Quite the contrary: it was apparent that the next session would impose far heavier conditions on them.
It would be absurd to say that they can imposefetters upon their own power which they can not afterwards remove.
Treasury as if we should impose a tax to create a loan to endow these State colleges.
I had the honour of being instructed by him in the mysteries of the constitution of the United States, and even of discussing with him the possibility of a League of Anglo-Saxon Peoples to impose peace on the world.
But do not let us try prematurely to impose representative institutions on people who neither demand nor understand them.
As District Magistrate, with power to try all but capital offences and impose substantial penalties, and as District Judge, with unlimited original civil jurisdiction and wide appellate powers, he directed the judicial administration.
And such a king as this would impose himself upon Germany as dictator and protector!
In the battle for this right the best strategy is to offer the accomplished fact of a college and a university which by their efficiency, their intellectual and moral value, impose themselves upon the community and win their way to acceptance.
Two initial tasks impose themselves if we wish to enlist in this great educational movement the sympathies of the people: 1.
Sir James, however, though no less sorrowful, had no faith; and he made short work of tramping sailors who came to impose on the poor lady with their unsubstantial legends.
Then too, the religious impose difficulties in the collection of the tributes in the encomiendas, saying that some of the encomiendas do not have the adequate instruction, and assigning other reasons for other encomiendas.
The acts also define precisely what ingredients may be employed in the manufacture of bread, and impose a penalty not exceeding L10 nor less than L5 for the adulteration of bread.
They have the sole right also to impose duties on exports and taxes upon real estate, industries and professions, and transfers of property.
Both the national and state governments exercise the right to impose stamp and consumption taxes, and the municipalities likewise are permitted to impose licence and consumption taxes.
Their morals are simple and it is by their studied mortifications that they impose on the populace whose ideal of the Sublime is the Extraordinary and the Peculiar.
Their occult researches have undoubtedly resulted in the discovery of certain tricks by which they impose on popular credulity.
It is a positive torture I impose on myself, and I should never have thought I could bear it so patiently.
I herewith solemnly declare that if I have to go in to dinner with him again, I will impose a voluntary fast on myself, and not appear at table.
I have thought so much about this, and am so much troubled about it, that I would feel almost like giving up the ship rather than to undertake the additional task which the bill as now reported would impose upon me.
That knowledge, however, she ordinarily keeps to herself, and she enters into a league with her husband, which he was never admitted to the secret of, to impose upon the world.
All of them got up by speculating men, who imposeupon the vanity of weak women.
You could n't impose upon him with any rubbish; he tested everything by the standards of his native place, and there was little that could bear the test.
His nature was one which it was easy to impose upon, and he did not escape the snares set in the public thoroughfares for liberal hearts.
She was no more attempting to impose on anybody than was a poet when on entering some "academia" he termed himself Tyrtæus or Lycidas, instead of the name inherited from his father.
But you mustn't try to impose on me,--my eyesight is not yet entirely gone!
For the note read: DEAR PATTY: I'm a wicked girl, and I can't impose on you any longer.
This is why governments impose their heaviest taxes upon these two articles; they might be heavier still without diminishing their use--only, children would starve to death.
When anybody comes to impose upon you I will be on the spot; I will pay the bills and hand you the account.
Elsewhere he can impose his own terms, and may demand his pay in advance, or create, by contract, a lien if he pleases.
A state may impose a penalty on a telegraph company for failure to deliver promptly in the state messages coming from other states.
A trustee is the legal owner of stock standing in his name and may vote the stock for all purposes; but a testator may impose limitations on his voting power.
Thus, in Massachusetts "the workmen's compensation act was not intended to confer its advantages upon farm laborers, or to impose its burdens upon farmers.
On the other hand, it cannot, after his withdrawal, impose any other obligations on him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
