Sentences with phrase «imposing upon»

... a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Much as we love our physical books (and let's face it, the majority of those working in publishing NOW, are there because of a love of paper books) we can not let that love blind us to the realities of change and the shift that digital is imposing upon us.

Unless, of course, your organization has a strong «no mobiles in the workplace» policy — in that case, imposing upon your employees to learn on their time might be detrimental to the learning process.

That gave schools with low - performing students an opportunity to raise their grades without imposing upon them the extremely difficult task of matching the performances of schools whose student body enjoyed a preferred demographic portfolio.

Where the Constitution is ambiguous, «this Court has no business imposing upon all Americans the resolution favored by the elite class from which the Members of this institution are selected.»

We never lose interest in Frances, a messy busy, clumsy girl who's not always aware when she's imposing upon others, speaking out of turn, or letting her pride stand in the way of growing up.

She's the most genuine of the women in that she doesn't have an ideal she's trying to live up to or that people are imposing upon her.

My shame was imposing upon my asanas as I freely admitted to my classes, «I just can't do that right now.»

Again, where would we be today if our politicians — from the dishonorably discharged President Richard Nixon to the reigning king of New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — did not insist on imposing upon us their Anti Marihuana Tyranny?

We can go back and forth all day about parenting philosophies, but at the end of the day, that whole «proper role of government» question boils down to this — if you want the government imposing upon the free interactions of others to serve your preferences, at the very least, it's incumbent upon you to prove that the government action (in this case the classroom environment) is the independent variable that deterministically thwarts your goals for your child.

• Let the mobile baby go along with his whims and explore, keeping an ear out for the signal, intuition, or time to go without imposing upon his deep exploration of his surroundings...

I can't isolate them from all fo these activities... we're struggling to maintain our standards without imposing them upon everyone else.

All you are doing is imposing yourself upon people and people do nt like that, so cut it out.

For if life is but «vanity,» as the writer of Ecclesiastes suggests, can one truly find pleasure in it by imposing upon it a meaning through an act of imagination and will?

This can be useful in teasing out possible implications of a position held by others, but it can also end up by imposing upon them meanings that are not theirs.

Understanding, therefore, is realized by «exposing ourselves to the text and receiving from it an enlarged self», not «by imposing upon the text our finite capacity for under - standing».

Athiests are the most hypocritical bunch I have ever heard.They slam religion (christianity) for imposing itself upon others, while they demand that religion should be outlawed simply because they don't agree with the concepts or precepts of that religion (christianity).

Doherty believes it is usually better «to seek an integration of body and identity which honours and cherishes the person's body as it already is, rather than imposing upon it».

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

It is far more important to the cause of Christianity that the missionary boards in the homelands should get together and form definite plans for co-operation than to encourage the growing protest from the foreign missionary fields against imposing upon them a denominational Christianity.

Then, too, demons used to deceive men's minds by taking up their abode in springs or rivers or trees or stones and imposing upon simple people by their frauds.

1) Laws have been used and maintained by men long before the catholic church started imposing theirs upon the people 2) The vatican observatory has tried to use its influence to den scientific study and control what is known.

You may feel that family are the only ones that you can impose upon that much.

This is especially true at work, where so many of our goals are imposed upon us.

But culture isn't a one - way street, something to be imposed upon people.

On paper, the recommendations for debt relief and reduced austerity «suddenly evaporate when IMF functionaries coalesce with their ECB and the European Commission colleagues in order to impose upon our government their chosen policies,» said Mr Varoufakis.

In the end, Trump, McDougal, and Daniels are three Republicans who are happy to build, inhabit, and impose upon all of us a heartless world, untroubled by the one consistently compelling notion that the GOP used to offer: that the American institution most worthy of respect was the family, the home, the shelter of one another.

This new growth model requires that household income comprises a much greater share of GDP than it currently does, and one way or another this new model will be imposed upon the Chinese economy.

After the proposal of Segwit started to gain traction, many developers and miners felt like SegWit was unjustly being imposed upon them.

North Korea seemingly wants to bypass the sanctions imposed upon the nation by the US government.

Earlier in the week, Athens passed a set of laws that will enforce the budget targets imposed upon it.

A formula that needs to be organic as opposed to imposed upon.

However, following this sudden banking embargo imposed upon them, cryptocurrency exchange Buda took the fight to the court.

Three of Chile's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges have filed a joint appeal against the banking embargo imposed upon them by the nation's banks.

Are the regulatory requirements imposed upon the Treasury market sufficient in today's world?

[3:50] «I confirm previous scripture — the Torah — and I revoke certain prohibitions imposed upon you.

I actually have no problem with limits â $ «I also impose them upon myself.

When the authors reviewed reports of respondents» parental disciplinary styles, they found: 1) Significantly fewer rescuers recalled any controls imposed upon them; 2) Parents of rescuers depended significantly less on physical punishment and significantly more on reasoning.

Now... convince me why one one of those choices is being imposed upon US citizens through law, despite the First Amendment being fairly clear on the separation between religion and government

I choose to live according to a morality that I have some say in, not one that was originally imposed upon an ancient people, hopelessly removed from my culture.

This task is very similar to the one that was imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment, and to which the Second Vatican Council, as the fruit of long and difficult research, found real solutions for the Catholic Church. . . .

A nexus enjoys «social order» where (i) there is a common element of form illustrated in the definiteness of each of its included actual entities, and (ii) this common element of form arises in each member of the nexus by reason of the conditions imposed upon it by its prehensions of some other members of the nexus, and (iii) these prehensions impose that condition of reproduction by reason of their inclusion of positive feelings of that common form.

The Chinese despised the treaties imposed upon them, reasonably considering them humiliating and unequal.

Causing the death of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.

What it does is give God the excuse to impose himself upon humans, which you would recognize as also being unfair if you were looking at this with eyes wide open.

With this gesture, the Vatican said, the Pope «desired to show his closeness, attention and prayer also to all those who suffer for their faith, in particular to Christians who are enduring persecution or limitations imposed upon their religious freedom.»

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

And more often than not, it imposes upon an ancient Near Eastern text Western assumptions regarding gender roles and the nuclear family, rendering the woman celebrated in Proverbs 31, for example, into little more than a happy homemaker prototype.

Paul is * not * saying all sinned «in Adam» — i.e. it is * not * sin that is passed from generation to generation (that is, that the taint of sin was added to / imposed upon our human constitution).

It embodies what God wants for human beings but not something God imposes upon them.