The stories related by Barnum of the tricks and impositions practised by himself and others are a fair sample, so far as roguery goes, of those which are to be heard in hotels, steamboats, and cars.
They also consider themselves entitled to collect taxes as they call them, and make impositions on people in India.
There were great tumults there, and the design was to subdue that nation by force: and at the same time there were great dissatisfactions in England upon the account of ship money, and other impositions that were reckoned illegal.
And such new impositions give just reason to princes and to the people to suspect that the presbyters are aspiring after some inordinate exaltation, or have some ill project for the advancement of themselves.
Any impositions upon the churches (be the thing never so lawful) which is made by a pretended power not derived from God and the Redeemer.
Between such authority in the ruler as will warrant his impositions before God for his own justification; and such authority as may make it my duty to obey him.
The present impositions laid on A* were, A asserted, much more than it was possible for him to meet.
The Clergy of the Established Church, have no interest like those of the Church of Rome, distinct from the true interest of their country; and therefore ought to suffer under no distinct impositions or taxes of any kind.
In this reign, even the merchants, though no public body, granted the king impositions on merchandise, because the first payments came out of their pockets.
When the parliament desired that a law might be enacted for the punishment of such as levied these arbitrary impositions he refused compliance.
The Memoires sur les Droits et Impositions en Europe (cited by Smith) was a scarce and excessively dear book.
Those of the said Consuls and Vice-Consuls who shall exercise commerce, shall be respectively subject to all taxes, charges, and impositions established on other merchants.
The female Gipsies have had recourse to many expedients in their impositions on the public.
I had suffered so many impositions in my commercial transactions in different parts of the world, that I became heartily disgusted with the sea-faring life, and I was determined not to return to it, at least for some time.
The king having demanded a further supply for the navy and other purposes, they revived those duties on wines and vinegar which had once been enjoyed by the late king; and they added some impositions on tobacco and sugar.
The church, therefore, was not displeased to depart tacitly from the right of taxing herself, and allow the commons to lay impositions on ecclesiastical revenues, as on the rest of the kingdom.
He sets impositions to small boys with great profusion, and sees to it that they are shown up punctually.
We have long wondered here at the supineness of the English nation, under the Prussian impositions upon its trade entering our port.
We did not, till lately, know the claims, ancient and modern, that hang over that nation; and therefore could not suspect that it might submit to those impositionsfrom a sense of duty or from principles of equity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impositions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
