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Example sentences for "imposition"

Lexicographically close words:
imposed; imposer; imposes; imposing; imposingly; impositions; impossibile; impossibilities; impossibility; impossible
  1. PS) Notwithstanding this analysis by the Reichsbank, they proceeded to increase the imposition on France from 15 million Reichsmarks daily to 25 million per day.

  2. He had been ordained, not by actual imposition of hands, but by a certificate of ordination, sent out to him by Zinzendorf.

  3. If you won't break down somewhere, as you always do, with some frightful false quantity, that you would get an imposition for, if you were a boy.

  4. The imposition of a centralized form of government modelled on that of France, the wresting of Geneva from this ancient confederation, and its incorporation with France, were not the only evils suffered by Switzerland.

  5. The imposition of innumerable taxes, door and window, capitation and land taxes, drove the inhabitants to despair.

  6. It helped to band together the French people to resist the imposition of their exiled royal house by external force.

  7. Nothing, but our undertakings when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, cat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.

  8. The very grossness of the imposition seemed to secure its success, and the absurdity of the accusation to establish the verity of the charge.

  9. Pastors, and other ecclesiastical officers, were chosen, who were installed into their sacred offices, by the imposition of the hands of the brethren.

  10. But, as we learnt from our own manifold experiences, it does not follow that because there is no imposition of visible hands, no extraneous aid is rendered.

  11. That there were yet further reasons for this imposition on me of the rule of poverty, arising out of the nature of the work required of me, was in due time made manifest, and also what those reasons were.

  12. However, he desisted from his announced intention of deposing Moreno and installing an anti-clerical government in Ecuador, and granted peace without the imposition of any onerous terms.

  13. The irrational and artificial boundaries given to Bolivia by Bolivar continued to involve her in disputes with Peru, and in 1847 the imposition of practically prohibitive duties nearly brought on war.

  14. When they heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, sent Peter and John to them;" by imposition of whose hands, they that were Baptized (verse 15.

  15. Equall Taxes To Equall Justice, appertaineth also the Equall imposition of Taxes; the equality whereof dependeth not on the Equality of riches, but on the Equality of the debt, that every man oweth to the Common-wealth for his defence.

  16. So that Imposition of hands, was nothing else but the Seal of their Commission to Preach Christ, and teach his Doctrine; and the giving of the Holy Ghost by that ceremony of Imposition of hands, was an imitation of that which Moses did.

  17. We read also, that St. Paul had Imposition of Hands twice; once from Ananias at Damascus (Acts 9.

  18. And as concerning Imposition of Hands, whether it be needfull, for the authorizing of a King to Baptize, and Consecrate, we may consider thus.

  19. But I have already proved, that Christian Soveraignes are in their owne Dominions the supreme Pastors, and instituted thereto, by vertue of their being Baptized, though without other Imposition of Hands.

  20. For such imposition being a Ceremony of designing the person, is needlesse, when hee is already designed to the Power of Teaching what Doctrine he will, by his institution to an Absolute Power over his Subjects.

  21. If pools and other railroad abuses had, since the beginning of the railroad era, been treated as crimes and misdemeanors, and punished as such by the imposition of heavy fines, few people would to-day be ready to offer apologies for them.

  22. But an accident happened which liked to have spoiled all: Sir John Coventry having moved for an imposition on the playhouses, Sir John Berkenhead, to excuse them, sayed they had been of great service to the King.

  23. While treachery and imposition is the fort of any man, let us remember, there is always most danger when his professions are warmest.

  24. Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home.

  25. Their commission is embodied in the words of the Ordination Office, "Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands.

  26. Rather than credit an imposition so childish, and yet so unwarrantable, we should have recourse to the theory that Pope sometimes sent the same letter to different persons.

  27. The result of the imposition is to confound dates, events, opinions, and persons.

  28. The object of the imposition was to uphold the tale he had advanced in his Wycherley volume.

  29. The similarity of paper and handwriting, coupled with the pressing necessity Pope was under to supply himself with examples of fabrication, strongly indicate that the person who profited by the imposition contrived it.

  30. Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imposition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assessment; assumption; atrocity; blackmail; bother; burden; call; cargo; charge; cheat; claim; composition; contribution; cross; deadweight; demand; difficulty; disadvantage; dishonesty; disservice; dodge; draft; drain; draught; draughtsman; draughty; dummy; duty; embarrassment; encroachment; encumbrance; entrance; entrenchment; exaction; extortion; familiarity; fraud; freight; furniture; graft; grievance; hamper; handicap; hubris; impediment; impedimenta; imposition; impost; imposture; inconvenience; incursion; indent; infiltration; infliction; influx; infringement; injection; injury; injustice; inroad; insinuation; interference; interjection; interloping; interposition; interruption; intervention; invasion; irruption; justification; lawlessness; layout; levy; liberty; license; load; loading; lumber; notice; onus; order; outrage; pack; penalty; presumption; quoin; racket; ramp; ratable; requirement; requisition; rush; setting; slug; surtax; swindle; tax; taxation; taxing; tithe; toll; trespass; trespassing; tribute; trouble; ultimatum; warning; weight; wrong