imposition

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But Canberra has redoubled efforts to diversify export markets for farmers since a 2020 dispute with Beijing saw agriculture exports blocked for several years, and then last year's global imposition of US trade tariffs.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

It's GPs committee is due to meet on Thursday to decide whether it should challenge the imposition of the contract.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

I caught Levin the day after he turned in a chapter about authoritarianism for a new book, which happens to look at how discrimination and the imposition of social hierarchies ties in with power.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

First, it details the imposition of China export restrictions on silver that start Jan 1.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 30, 2025

This was part of the landscape, not an imposition on it.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman