(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."
Intrude
Definition:
(v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.
(v. t.) To thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.
(v. t.) To enter by force; to invade.
(v. t.) The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each test was recorded using a video TV monitor system, and at a later time several behavioral elements shown by both resident and intruder mice were measured.
(2) The monkey brain (Macaca fascicularis) also accumulates P and D. Adrenal suppression with dexamethasone for 4 days does not decrease the concentrations of brain P and 3rd ventricle CSFP and D. The concentrations of brain D are decreased to a much smaller extent than plasma D. D inhibits the aggressive behavior of castrated male mice exposed to lactating female intruders.
(3) Aggressive behavior was evoked by introducing a group-housed male mouse (intruder) into the home cage of the isolated or nonisolated mouse (resident).d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, methylphenidate, cocaine, and L-dopa decreased attack and threat behavior by resident mice, the isolates requiring 2--4 times higher drug doses for the antiaggressive effects than the nonisolates, d-Amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylphenidate caused intruder mice to be more frequently attacked by their non-treated resident opponents, to escape more often, to assume the defensive upright posture less, and to move about more often.
(4) The test was briefly interrupted by a woman (intruder).
(5) As a first step in these processes, an enhanced chemotactic activity can attract neutrophils to the bronchial lumen, where they help by cleaning the lungs from possible dangerous intruders, but can also cause damage to the normal lung architecture.
(6) If we drive politicians down the road to ever greater disclosure, how can we resist the demands of the home secretary, Theresa May, that her security mafia intrude ever further into our private lives?
(7) This immune reaction is an attempt to change the histotypic pattern of the intruder.
(8) Sitting in the Khartoum restaurant as the fierce late-afternoon sun intrudes through the windows, Lubna dismisses the notion that western praise might be a drawback in a country like Sudan.
(9) Still, the legacy of genocide continued to intrude.
(10) The US secret service allowed an armed man with an arrest record to enter an elevator with president Barack Obama, it was disclosed on Tuesday, hours after officials admitted they missed three chances to deter an intruder who broke into the White House earlier this month.
(11) "The longer this intrusion persisted it became clear to the authorities that the intruders had no intention to leave Sabah," Najib said.
(12) The cytotrophoblast was restricted to the blastocoel, whilst syncytiotrophoblast intruded to the endometrial basal lamina.
(13) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(14) Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA) and 3 beta-methyl-androst-5-en-17-one (CH3-DHA) suppress attacks by castrated male mice towards lactating female intruders (Haug et al.
(15) In general, the Private Office will need to know where the Minister will be (for security purposes) and how to maintain contact; apart from this, the Private Office should not intrude on the Minister's personal free time.
(16) The state tried to prove that Pistorius was aware that it was Steenkamp behind the toilet door but the judge accepted the defence's claims that he thought it was an intruder.
(17) There is a difference between grabbing a bedside lamp and whacking an intruder because you are worried about the children and hitting someone and then stabbing them 17 times," one source said.
(18) The dorsal raphé-lesioned rats showed significantly fewer interactions of all kinds, compared with control rats when an intruder was placed in their home cages.
(19) These intruding striated muscle fibres also received direct autonomic (mostly adrenergic) innervation.
(20) "He just looked at me and he said, 'I thought it was an intruder'."