How to Use imposition in a Sentence

imposition

noun

• Your kids can stay with me the night you're away—it's really not an imposition.
• With the imposition of the Morales Project, the water basin at the foot of the volcano is at risk.
  — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• At least eight jurors in such a case would have to agree on the imposition of a death sentence.
  — By Andrew Powell | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2023
• The end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the imposition of Jim Crow laws undid many of the gains the former slaves had made.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 17 June 2022
• For some men, the imposition of the Taliban’s male guardianship rules is a nuisance.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
• The traffic jam in the Turkish straits arose following the imposition this weekof the price cap on Russian oil.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
• Its haul road—which runs from the De Long Mountains to the port—was the only rectilinear imposition across the vast landscape.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• On the ground, hundreds of trucks and cars have blocked the streets of the city and set up a tent commune to protest against the imposition of vaccination requirements for truck drivers.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022
• The same set of assumptions that governed Obamacare led to the imposition of mask mandates and vaccine cards.
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Iran sits on the world's fourth-largest oil reserves, but its crude output has dropped since the imposition of US sanctions on its economy in 2018.
  — Abbas Al Lawati and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
• The old prompt was an explanation; the newer one was an imposition.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, Erdogan has refused to join the West’s imposition of tough sanctions on Moscow for its attacks on Ukraine.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• This would be achieved through the imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum that would impact China and other countries that did not belong to the group.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• The imposition of the protective order was a small but important step in the nuts-and-bolts process of prosecuting Trump.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 12 Aug. 2023
• In some cases, this has led to the demolition of Arab property and the imposition of massive fines.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• The imposition of the protective order was a small but important step in the nuts-and-bolts process of prosecuting Mr. Trump.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The imposition of a capital gains tax in Washington State brings the number of no-income-tax states back down to seven.
  — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Still the sudden imposition of restrictions caught many in the government off guard.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
• But apart from mere economic parameters, does the imposition of new languages fit in with the lives of Rwandans?
  — Jeremie Eyssette, Quartz, 30 June 2022
• But that hope came to dust with the imposition in 2020 of harsh national security laws and the suppression of the democracy movement that arose in its wake.
  — David Rieff, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
• The journey of men’s fashion thus seems to be an attempt to escape the restrictions, the rules, the impositions of 19th-century categories.
  — Andrea Batilla, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
• The imposition of a political test for government jobs would be a mistake at any time.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 9 Dec. 2021
• Haq, the economist, said Pakistan's inflation rate of 26% will jump to 40% after the imposition of new taxes.
  — Munir Ahmed, ajc, 14 Feb. 2023
• The fact that a game was stopped at all, even for an hour was the strange sight, the unnatural imposition of the real world on professional sports’ most plutocratic league.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 Jan. 2023
• However, the Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Monday a lower-court ruling that blocked imposition of the state ban.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2022
• The measure is Moscow’s first major move to halt energy supplies since the imposition of sanctions.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• In one of the largest turnarounds from last year, energy costs have fallen significantly since the start of the war in Ukraine and the imposition of new Western sanctions on Russia in response.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• In this instance, Republicans used a once-obscure law, known as the Congressional Review Act, to counter the imposition of the mandate.
  — Emily Cochrane, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• And the result of that, from our perspective, would be the imposition of severe economic consequences.
  — NBC News, 6 Feb. 2022
• The crime Griner is accused of carries a possible punishment of 5-10 years in prison, Butler says, in addition to the possible imposition of a fine.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024