He refused to drill with the local militia, paying the fines instead, which were imposed by law for such delinquencies.
He took advantage of the Governor's confidence in his statements and deeply imposed upon him.
Not being a dull man, he could not have been imposed upon by the participants in this riot of robbery and blood whom he interviewed, and whose evasions he has certified to the world as the exact facts.
The Court declined, saying the Constitution did not give rights and immunities alone, but also imposed responsibilities.
It is evident that he was imposed upon by these principals in the "happenings"; for it is unfair to suppose that he would withhold the facts from his publication if he had correct information in his possession concerning them.
So monarchs retained in their service confessors who imposed such easy obligations.
The Jesuits, in their missionary zeal, partly redeemed the cruelties; but they soon imposed a despotic yoke, and made their religion pay.
They were robbed by feudal masters, and cheated and imposed upon by friars and pedlers; but a grim cheerfulness shone above their discomforts and miseries, and crime was uncommon and severely punished.
So much income, so many servants, such and such habits--these things imposed themselves.
I will not fail you, I will give you all my confidence; and I will try and understand that noble, wounded heart of yours, with its memories, and all those singular prides and isolations that have been imposed on it by circumstance.
Electro-biology was very naturally the special entertainment of a man whom no intercourse ever pleased in which his will was not imposed upon others.
Certain circumstances, which I trust to relate to you in detail hereafter, have imposed on me the duty to discover, and to bring human laws to bear upon, a creature armed with terrible powers of evil.
MENO: But if a person were to say that he does not know what colour is, any more than what figure is--what sort of answer would you have given him?
On remonstrating, and observing that her safe delivery warranted better hopes, he was sternly commanded to do as he had been ordered, and with difficulty he collected his thoughts sufficiently to perform the taskimposed on him.
As might be expected, Captain Cranstoun not only worked upon her feelings, but imposed on her credulity.
His self-imposed task including the arrangement of all disputes, those of the rival Lords of Urbino and Rimini attracted early notice.
Conditions of nearly equal severity were imposed on Malatesta of Cesena, and the remnant of territory allowed to the brothers was continued to them only during life, under burden of a heavy annual tribute.
Proceeding to the cathedral, the prelate set forth the sins of the sovereign, andimposed upon the community three days of fasting and penance, with suspension of Divine ministrations.
There is thus every reason to believe that the conditions imposed upon him at his succession in 1443 would be rigidly fulfilled, and we have discovered no complaint ever made against him of their non-observance.
It imposed upon us obligations from which we cannot escape and from which it would be dishonorable to seek escape.
I recommend that the Congress at its present session reduce the internal-revenue taxesimposed to meet the expenses of the war with Spain in the sum of thirty millions of dollars.
Consular court fees and fines imposed and collected by consular courts are hereby declared to be official.
Executive, that he had not put himself in a position which imposed on him the necessity of refusing to negotiate on the parallel of 49 deg.
Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it, and maintain it in its integrity, to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the power conferred upon me by the constitution.
There is no truth in the rumor which you notice, that the fine he imposed was paid by others.
It was the system followed in the war of the Revolution, in the quasi war with France, and in the war of 1812--imposed upon us by necessity in each case, not adopted through choice.
You are ready, I am sure, to fulfil all the duties imposed upon you by your situation, and demanded of you by your country.
The neglect, therefore, to take such command, would be to neglect the duty which his country had imposed upon him.
And immoral conduct is just as little blameworthy as ugliness, stupidity, sickness and other misfortunes which the individual is burdened with by heredity or which a hard fate has imposed on him.
Commands and prohibitions are imposed upon the soul by that omnipotence which spiritualizes the universe and of which the soul is an immortal part.
It is directed towards an ever closer, ever subtler adaptation to the unalterable conditions which are imposed on men by Nature, and which they must make the best of if they are not to perish.
It is inflicted by the inner judge who rules in the consciousness of the individual, by conscience, and penetrates to the very deepest depths of a person's mind which no outward punishment imposed by the community ever reaches.
The governors may be imposed upon by false declarations; we, who are on the spot, cannot.
Many men are swayed by strong and wayward impulses; but to most the fetters imposed by social conventions, by inherited or implanted standards of seemliness and decorum, suffice to steady them in the path of outward propriety.
With so vivid a career as that of Nelson ahead, the delayimposed by this wrangling episode is somewhat dreary; but it undeniably shows his characteristics in the strongest light.
Roswell was quite ready to sail, and he began to chafe a little under the extra hazards that were thusimposed on himself and his people.
In few things are the credulous more imposed on than in this article of sermons.
Thus Anton remained alone in the strange town, in a position where great trust imposed upon him great responsibility.
After the plates were removed, Mr. Liebold rose to fulfill the arduous duty imposed upon him by his position--to propose the health of their principal.
True, the property had no longer to dread the horrors of civil war, but the burdens that the times imposed fell heavy on the establishment.
And that, in spite of all the difficulties and dangers of his self-imposed task, he succeeded in conveying his precious charge safely to Seville.
In Germany and Holland, where the trade is more extensively carried on than elsewhere, the duty imposed is almost nominal, and all classes of their citizens are enabled to use the weed at prices very little higher than its first prime cost.
Their unsuspicious minds are easily dazzled by the least ray of light, and deceived by the most unlikely promises, and it is not surprising that they are often imposed upon and led to accept false ways of salvation.
Our normal life could be prolonged to a hundred and fifty, or even two hundred years,[1] but we have stupidly imposed upon ourselves an artificial barrier which we scarcely ever surpass!
Persons who have committed a caste offence and cannot pay the fine imposed on them for it also go into this subcaste.
Permanent excommunication is imposed for adultery or eating with a very low caste.
In the southern Districts a barber cuts off a lock of her hair on the banks of a tank or river by way of penalty, and a fast is also imposed on her, while the caste-fellows exact a meal from her family.
As a penalty the Raja imposed on them the duty of thatching a hut for him at the Dasahra festival, which their descendants still perform.
Temporary exclusion is imposedfor killing a cat, dog or squirrel, getting maggots in a wound, being sentenced to imprisonment [548] or committing adultery with a person of any low caste.
Girls must be married before adolescence, and in the event of the parents failing to accomplish this, the following heavy penalty is imposed on the girl herself.
The special Chamar on whom these duties are imposed usually receives a plot of land rent-free from the village proprietor.
A substantial fine is imposed on a woman detected in adultery according to her means and spent on a feast to the caste.
Temporary or permanent exclusion from caste is imposed for the same offences as among the Hindus.
Temporary exclusion from caste is imposed for the usual offences, and the almost invariable penalty for readmission is a feast to the caste-fellows.
Temporary excommunication from caste is imposed for conviction of a criminal offence, getting maggots in a wound, and killing a cow, a dog or a cat.
Herein lies the freedom of the man as regarded in connection with the necessity imposed by the omnipotence and fore-knowledge of God.
God an hypothesis imposed by good sense on Human Reason, 738-u.
The others have, for the most part, a mere blind faith, imposedby education and circumstances, and not as productive of moral excellence or even common honesty as Mohammedanism.
God, in philosophy, can be no more than a Hypothesis; but a Hypothesis imposed by good sense on Human Reason.
The writer doubles and triples his style, when silence isimposed by a master upon the people.
It is imposedon us despite ourselves: its principle must be without us.
If one be not good and the other bad, the obligation imposed on us is arbitrary.
It was necessary to be faithful to the laws of initiation, which imposed on men duties in regard to their kind.
It is not a theoretical principle by which the very relations that God has created and imposed on us are to be tried, and approved or condemned.
He had room to work in, scope for all his energies, and release from the bars and bands imposed by a landed aristocracy.
With his glib tongue I have no doubt he has imposed on a lot of people to lend him their savings.
But as conditions, considered distasteful by the Squadron, were imposed as to the future holding of the cup, and the New York Yacht Club declined to yield in any way, the match was reluctantly abandoned.
He is very generous, and as a result is often imposed upon.
It was on his account that Bagoses, the general of Artaxerxes [Mnemon], desecrated the temple and imposed tribute on the Jews, that at public expense they should pay for every lamb fifty shekels.
He ardently accepted the ideal of an Oriental ruler that had been imposed upon the Jews during the short reign of his brother Aristobulus.
It was this Jonathan who influenced him so far that he made him join the Sadducees and leave the party of the Pharisees and abolish the decrees that they had thus imposedon the people and punish those who obeyed them.
After this public petition for Jehovah's forgiveness, the people through their nobles, Levites, and priests subscribe in writing to the regulationsimposed by the lawbook that Ezra had brought.
As a law, we are subjected too it without consulting self-love; as imposed by us on ourselves, it is a result of our will.
A kingdom of ends is thus only possible on the analogy of a kingdom of nature, the former however only by maxims, that is self-imposed rules, the latter only by the laws of efficient causes acting under necessitation from without.
So keen was the ambition to be inscribed that in the year following a fine of thirty lire was imposed on all those whose names were unlawfully entered and who did not remove them within a month.
For this, and to rebuild the city, a subsidy of a decima was voted to be imposed on the property of each citizen.
Later, a tax was imposed on every family to meet the cost of the eight days' festa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imposed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
