What's the difference between imposition and obtrusion?

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."

Obtrusion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of obtruding; a thrusting upon others by force or unsolicited; as, the obtrusion of crude opinions on the world.
  • (n.) That which is obtruded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The method is easy to use, non-obtrusive to the subjects, and flexible enough to allow the investigator to design studies with a wide range of experimental protocols and study parameters.
  • (2) The very expensive Maxxi art gallery in Rome is exceptionally challenging to anyone who might want to display art there, with sloping walls, and cavernous spaces interrupted by obtrusive ramps.
  • (3) Obtrusive and unobtrusive observations revealed the cough rate higher when the patient was aware of being observed than when he was unaware of being observed.
  • (4) A principal components analysis indicated 4 components: distress, belief strength, obtrusiveness and concern.
  • (5) One mechanism suggested is that they arise through obtrusion of the fetal capillaries contained within the stromal core.
  • (6) Among the improved approaches now becoming available are lighter, less obtrusive braces such as an orthoplast jacket molded to the individual's torso, electrostimulation of paraspinal muscles, and implantation of a rod to distract the spine.
  • (7) The moment they start to annoy their users with subscriptions or obtrusive ads, users can easily switch to another service or simply stop using Snapchat."
  • (8) So in formal styles it's not a bad idea to keep an eye open for them and to correct the obtrusive ones.
  • (9) Obtrusive behinds that refuse to slip quietly into sheath dresses, subside, and stay put.
  • (10) Learning deficits, behavioural problems and manual indexterity are most obtrusive features.
  • (11) Other forms of monitoring are obtrusive or inaccurate.
  • (12) There was a telephone on the kitchen worktop, right by my hand, but if I picked it up he would hear the bedroom extension give its little yip, and he would come out and kill me, not with a bullet but in some less obtrusive way that would not alert the neighbours and spoil his day.
  • (13) Pressure measuring platforms cannot do this and transducers inserted inside the shoe can be obtrusive and inaccurate.
  • (14) In these late cases a special speedy selection process could kick in and Johnson could take a seat less obtrusively than in a full-blown byelection.
  • (15) Learning deficits and impairment of manual dexterity are the most obtrusive features.
  • (16) The morphological appearances suggest that they are caused by the obtrusion of locally dilated segments of the fetal capillaries into the trophoblast layer.
  • (17) The network sampling approach was a more economical and methodologically less obtrusive means of increasing sample size of persons with desired characteristics than conventional procedures.
  • (18) Both obtrusive and unobtrusive measures of speech were recorded.
  • (19) A mechanistic process (capillary peripheralization and obtrusion into the trophoblastic epithelium) is sufficient to account for the differences observed, although the possibility that both processes operate concurrently cannot be discounted.
  • (20) It reduces the oxygen supply flow necessary to achieve adequate oxygen saturation, but because it requires the use of a reservoir situated under the nose, some patients find it obtrusive.