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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
impose .
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Examples
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The logic of scarcity that copyright imposes is inappropriate for these creative works.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The designation imposes restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance, among other sanctions.
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The designation imposes restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance, among other sanctions.
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To claim that the state's burden of justice, which falls short of the supreme test Jesus imposes, is actually what he wills — that would be to substitute some lesser and false religion for what Jesus brought from the Father.
Balkinization 2006
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"Most importantly, unlike animals fetuses reside in women's bodies, and being forced to carry a pregnancy to term imposes serious burdens on a mother's health and life prospects, which forcing a woman not to torture dogs does not."
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If the pay-off between category labelling and the barriers that imposes is no longer cost-effective, the authors may well have no choice.
The Walls Of The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005
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Despite the burden that pain imposes on society, pain relief has long been a stepchild of medicine.
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If the pay-off between category labelling and the barriers that imposes is no longer cost-effective, the authors may well have no choice.
Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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"Most importantly, unlike animals fetuses reside in women's bodies, and being forced to carry a pregnancy to term imposes serious burdens on a mother's health and life prospects, which forcing a woman not to torture dogs does not."
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In order to make the First Amendment argument against the DMCA, one must show that the incidental restriction on freedom of speech that the law imposes is too severe.
Balkinization 2003
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