What's the difference between imposition and inflict?

Imposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
  • (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
  • (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
  • (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
  • (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
  • (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (2) Instability or a return to violence could follow the imposition of measures that would threaten the ability of the PA to govern in the West Bank.
  • (3) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (4) More than 60% of the residents' working hours in this program exceeded the arbitrary 80-hour limit, emphasizing the challenge of complying with the imposition of maximum work hours.
  • (5) The adoption of restrictive measures is not our choice; however, it is clear that the imposition of sanctions against us will not go without an adequate response from the Russian side.
  • (6) Coated microvesicles isolated from bovine neurohypophyses could be loaded with Ca2+ in two different ways, either by incubation in the presence of ATP or by imposition of an outwardly directed Na+ gradient.
  • (7) Simultaneous imposition of the pH gradient (outward OH- gradient) and inward Na+ gradient stimulated PAH uptake significantly over that with an Na+ gradient alone.
  • (8) If anyone wants to make an inference [from this that they supported] imposition then that is their inference, [but] that is not what [the signatories] have committed their names to.
  • (9) But Miller, in continuing to urge publishers to be "recognised" by the charter did refer to the "incentives", meaning a protection from the payment of legal costs for libel claimants (even if unsuccessful) and the imposition of exemplary damages (which would be very doubtful anyway).
  • (10) Is this a vision of the future of Manchester, or is the imposition of formal central control irrelevant since Osborne has presumably insisted on a directly elected mayor to act as a single point of contact for instructions from the Treasury?
  • (11) The effects of administering small doses of glucagon to patients were consistent with these results; imposition of increments to plasma glucagon concentration below 1 mmug per ml induced distinct and sustained increases in blood glucose.
  • (12) Minute ventilation decreased to approximately 50% of baseline level within 5 min of imposition of a severe resistive load and remained at this level for the duration of loading.
  • (13) The imposition of a poll tax on the Scots in 1989 contributed to Margaret Thatcher's downfall and all but wiped out Scottish Toryism.
  • (14) A third factor, imposition of stress, was required to initiate the disorder.
  • (15) The imposition of an inwardly directed Na+ gradient stimulated vesicle uptake of biotin to levels approximately 25-fold greater than those observed at equilibrium.
  • (16) The key difference between the two methods and the types of method which they represent lies in the imposition of symmetry on the plot.
  • (17) Synthesis of acetylornithine deacetylase and acetylornithine acetyltransferase was slightly diminished by the imposition of biotin deficiency, but the effect was not as great as on ornithine carbamoyltransferase synthesis.
  • (18) The imposition of fasting on diabetic animals tended to further decrease IGF-I mRNA levels, and fasting alone also decreased IGF-I mRNA abundance in the three tissues (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) The imposition of an inwardly directed pH gradient (5.5 outside, 7.5 inside) accelerated both the influx and efflux of L-glutamate.
  • (20) In a lengthy statement Unite said: "The imposition of a regime of 'special measures' on the CLP [Constituency Labour Party], are unnecessary and are at best an extreme over-reaction, at worst the product of an anti-union agenda."

Inflict


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (2) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
  • (3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (4) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (5) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
  • (6) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (7) The attacker, who was named locally as Jaylen Fryberg, killed one girl on Friday and seriously wounded four people – including two of his cousins – before he died of what police said was a self-inflicted wound.
  • (8) Maltose-positive strains were only demonstrable in birds with wounds inflicted by cats.
  • (9) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
  • (10) These cases were tested at 9 to 25 years of age, or 8 to 22 years after inflicting injuries.
  • (11) A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.
  • (12) The concentrating defect in the postobstructive kidney may be related, at least in part, to damage inflicted by medullary ischemia during obstruction.
  • (13) We're kicking off with Spain, where prime minister Mariano Rajoy has defiantly insisted that he would not accept a bailout which would force him to inflict further spending cuts or tax rises on the Spanish people Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy answers journalists questions during last night's interview on the national Spanish Public Television (TVE).
  • (14) All were inflicted with severe smoke inhalation injury and pulmonary was demonstrated.
  • (15) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
  • (16) "Use new satellite imagery to trace buildings, infrastructure, areas, natural features and other important visible features of the city of Ormoc," lists one requests, as well as "map the current state of Tacloban City area after Typhoon Haiyan inflicted heavy damage to buildings, infrastructure and areas".
  • (17) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
  • (18) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (19) The number of self-inflicted deaths occurring in prisons in England and Wales is currently at record levels.” A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “These are tragic cases, and our thoughts continue to be with the family and friends of Ian Brown and Daniel Dunkley.
  • (20) The finding that lymphocytes are not affected by the liposome encapsulated drug suggests that the observed loss of lymphocytes in vivo, after intravenous dichloromethylene diphosphonate liposome treatment, may be due to damage inflicted by lysosomal enzymes released from dying macrophages.