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6 sentences with 'impose'

Example sentences and phrases with the word impose and other words derived from it.


• « Subsequent reforms were both to impose new internal discipline and to make membership attractive to lay Catholics. »
• « The Hittites did not seek to impose their own customs on others, but gathered the literature, histories and beliefs of their subjects. »
• « In the past, although the Church did its best to stamp out heresy, it was not necessary to impose any formal censorship. No written material could be mass-produced, so the only ideas that spread quickly did so by word of mouth. »
• « As noted above, there were serious debates about who or what Jesus was. For centuries, there could be no 'orthodoxy', i.e. 'correct belief', because there was no authority within the church (including the popes) who could impose a certain set of beliefs over rival interpretations. »
• « It is worth noting that this Portuguese "monopoly" was primarily a monopoly between the Indian Ocean trade and Europe, and not a monopoly of trade within the Indian Ocean itself (despite the best efforts of the Portuguese, who tried desperately to impose control by force of arms). »
• « Philip II was able to exert great control over Spanish society. However, he found it much harder to impose similar control and religious unity in his foreign possessions, especially in the Netherlands, a collection of territories in northern Europe that he had inherited from his various royal ancestors. »

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