(v. t.) To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
(v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.
(v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
(v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
(v. i.) To practice trick or deception.
(n.) A command; injunction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
(4) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(5) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(6) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(7) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(8) Noradrenaline turnover and metabolism are altered soon after imposing increased workload on heart.
(9) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(10) Under any other circumstances, a penalty of life imprisonment could be imposed on both the woman undergoing the abortion and anyone assisting her – even if the abortion is sought because of a fatal foetal impairment, for example, or because the pregnancy is the result of rape.
(11) The National Basketball Players Association has asked the NBA to ban Sterling from attending playoff games and to impose the league's maximum penalties if the comments are verified to be his.
(12) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
(13) All of the parties have been trying to use Greece to their advantage.” On Monday, the governing People’s party pointed to the referendum to justify their decision to impose austerity measures during the height of the economic crisis.
(14) It was previously believed that the period of the circadian clock was primarily responsive to externally imposed tonic or phasic events.
(15) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(16) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
(17) Stringent (rel+) as well as relaxed (rel minus) strains were able to rapidly curtail their accumulation of ribonculeic acid (RNA) after a downshift imposed by decreasing glucose transport into the cell.
(18) We urge junior doctors to look at the detail of the contract and the clear benefits it brings.” The judicial review is based on the fact that the government appears to have failed to carry out an equality impact assessment (EIA), as required under the Equality Act 2010, before its decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors in England, the BMA said.
(19) Changes in the fitness of harmful mutations may therefore impose a greater long-term disadvantage on asexual populations than those which are sexual.
(20) Asked by Marr if he knew if Ashcroft paid tax in this country, Hague said:" I'm sure he fulfils the obligations that were imposed on him at the time he became …" Marr: "Have you asked him?"
Penalize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make penal.
(v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
(2) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
(3) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
(4) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
(5) The introduction in 1968 of the legal concept of Grave Abnormal into the penal code, Development of the Personality Amounting to a Disorder made possible criminal exculpation on the basis of psychosocial maldevelopment.
(6) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
(7) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
(8) Now boos ring round the stadium as the resultant free kick causes some chaos in the box and Seattle are penalized for Zach Scott holding.
(9) There are currently about 750 babies in Russia's penal colonies living in mini-detachment blocks.
(10) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
(11) Whether in civil, penal or administrative law, it supposes the notion of liability.
(12) As part of this they investigate “the reasons for the establishment of one or more British colonies such as a penal colony (for example Moreton Bay, Van Diemen’s Land) or a colony that later became a state (for example Western Australia, Victoria)”.
(13) Civil legislation (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch = BGB) as well as the penal code (Strafgesetzbuch = StGB) contain a broad spectrum of laws to protect children against physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect: i.e.
(14) The 29 people arrested are reportedly facing charges of joining an unlawful assembly under section 143 of the penal code, which carries a maxiumum 20-year jail term.
(15) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
(16) Common to both perspectives is the implicit recognition that certain rules will be followed and that penalties will ensue when they are not, or, at the very least, that the prospect of penality will serve as a deterrent.
(17) The responses reveal that coaches disapprove and even sanction players receiving too many useless penalties, but occasionally congratulate them for a penalized action executed to save a goal.
(18) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
(19) It would take much political courage and social confidence to spread the penal philosophy of Bastoy outside Norway, however.
(20) Previous studies have shown older people to be especially penalized by divided attention situations, but the generality of this finding was recently challenged by Somberg and Salthouse (1982).