Imposed

Examples

• They imposed another pirate upon us at Nazareth--another invincible Arab guard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To Elizabeth, however, he voluntarily acknowledged that the necessity of his absence _had_ been self-imposed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The tax of a guinea a-head for every man-servant, which has lately been imposed in Great Britain, is of the same kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In this respect he is far below Aristotle, who is comparatively seldom imposed upon by false analogies. Plato. The Republic.
• To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The old subsidy was imposed indifferently upon exportation, as well as importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I cannot be imposed upon any more by that picture of the Queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The duties of excise are imposed chiefly upon goods of home produce, destined for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The latter is paid by the persons upon whom it is imposed; the former, by a different set of persons. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was not the less present in our minds--it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All taxes, they pretend, fall ultimately upon the rent of land, and ought, therefore, to be imposed equally upon the fund which must finally pay them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I know not in what manner, under what form of falsehood he had imposed on you; but his success is not perhaps to be wondered at. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A true aim is thus opposed at every point to an aim which is imposed upon a process of action from without. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was the Manchus who imposed the pigtail as a mark of political loyalty upon the Chinese population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A tax of this kind, imposed during the currency of a lease, may, no doubt, distress or ruin the farmer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I would rather not ask, but the question is imposed upon me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This statute leaves them subject to all the old duties which had ever been imposed upon them, the old subsidy, and one per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The Secretary was required to prevent the President's being imposed upon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Tellson's shall not be imposed upon. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Or is it imposed from without, and is the pupil's problem simply to meet the external requirement? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If I had been a happy man, if I had led a prosperous life, I believe I should have sunk under the task I had imposed on myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• You have a--ha--responsibility imposed upon you by your position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A tax, indeed, may render the goods upon which it is imposed so dear, as to diminish the consumption of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• From that self-imposed exile I came back, as I had hoped, prayed, believed I should come back--a changed man. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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