(a.) Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle.
(a.) Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
(n.) The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.
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?"
Protectionism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
(2) As part of a concerted push back against protectionism, the World Bank’s president, Jim Yong Kim , said China had lifted 700 million people out of poverty as a result of trade and opening its economy to competition.
(3) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(4) The forces of chauvinism, protectionism and xenophobia have been emboldened.
(5) Governments must defeat a rising tide of protectionism to prevent a further slowdown in global growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund has said.
(6) Resisting protectionism and promoting global trade and investment 22.World trade growth has underpinned rising prosperity for half a century.
(7) Her grandfather, Jean-Marie Le Pen , founded the political party which she now represents, a party which is anti-Europe, anti-globalisation and which believes in stringent immigration controls and national protectionism.
(8) That is a bizarre manifestation of a concern over inequality.” This year’s Davos has been dominated so far by concerns that the results of referendums in the UK and Italy together with the election of Donald Trump as US president represent a retreat from globalisation into nationalism and protectionism.
(9) Salvini has long attempted to model the Lega on France’s Front National , led by Marine Le Pen, with an emphasis on border controls, protectionism and an “Italians first” philosophy.
(10) Countries had to realise, he said, that the alternative to working together to ensure a high level of global demand would be a return to the protectionism of the 1930s.
(11) It is true that our economy has been plagued by bureaucracy, protectionism and market distortions for a long time,” he said.
(12) Philippot, less popular than Maréchal-Le Pen among party faithful, is a key architect of Marine Le Pen’s drive to “detoxify” and party’s image and pursue an economic line of state protectionism.
(13) He urged politicians not to give in to protectionism on banking rules but to keep an open financial system.
(14) The leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have launched a strong defence of open markets and free trade, as concern grows that the Brexit vote and calls for protectionism in the US presidential election represent a backlash against globalisation.
(15) Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room.
(16) This sort of rabid protectionism might feel depressingly inevitable in the gleaming, super-efficient first world of tournaments such as Germany 2006.
(17) She said: "He's got natural charm and charisma, very quick witted, and he's pretty small-c conservative in his political leanings, with a default setting towards protectionism.
(18) Brown also challenged Congress by asking: "Should we succumb to a race to the bottom, and a protectionism that history tells us that in the end protects no one?
(19) She refused to comment on the American election, but made clear her opposition to Donald Trump’s demand that protectionism should be used to repatriate jobs to the US.
(20) There are other arguments too, including the assumption that a return to the pre-euro Babel of currencies would see the resurrection of tariffs and protectionism, jeopardising the single market.