impose upon
Example Sentences
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A sense of discomfort in the roles their inheritance and their culture impose upon them is shared by all the major characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“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.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Simply put, companies are not concerned with the costs their satellites impose upon space as a common resource.
From Slate ● May 19, 2021
I would ask: What rules or restraints would you impose upon yourself and others in your administration on tweeting?
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2019
God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
