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
• Before the light of science the whole thing is shown to be an imposition.
  — Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2020
• 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
• But without the imposition of fines, the change will likely be slow in coming.
  — Christopher Sherman, ajc, 1 Jan. 2021
• 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
• If the rise in cases warrant a re-imposition of strict lockdowns in major economies, then the stock could see a sharp drop.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• 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
• The plan would block the imposition of fees and permits for demonstrations deemed legal.
  — oregonlive, 30 Sep. 2020
• The fees charged by the city seem unreasonably low for this imposition.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
• Forcing all restaurants in Italy to close at 6 p.m. is a major imposition for a nation that loves to eat out.
  — Marcus Walker, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
• Although Britain avoided the imposition of tariffs by signing a trade deal with the EU, there is new friction at the border.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• In the Russian city of Khabarovsk tens of thousands march week after week to protest against the arrest of the local governor and the imposition of Moscow’s rules.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2020
• But if my prosthesis came pre-stamped with a Taylor Swift theme, that would be an imposition.
  — Chloé Valentine Toscano, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Britain’s new subject peoples knew it, too, and rebelled at the imposition of colonial rule.
  — Priya Satia, Time, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Chauvin will have 90 days from the imposition of his sentence to file an appeal with the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
  — Veronica Rocha, CNN, 25 June 2021
• The old prompt was an explanation; the newer one was an imposition.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• The measures, which take effect Tuesday and run for at least two weeks, include the closure of Paris bars and the imposition of strict, new hygiene rules for restaurants.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
• But the real question for the county attorney is whether the law calls for the imposition of the death penalty because my job is to enforce the law — not decide what the law should be.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024
• 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
• Many of the women who defied these impositions have been tortured and detained.
  — Binaifer Nowrojee, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Letting go of these things would not necessarily prove a great imposition on the day-to-day lives of most people.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2020
• As the trade associations describe it, the passthrough provision infringes on the rights of businesses to communicate with their customers as to how imposition of the DST affects the pricing of their services.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Nov 2024