Example Sentences

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Gold, they said, “is the only commodity held down to a price established 31 years ago and compelled to sell only to the imposer of this strangling restriction—the Federal government.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 10, 2017

President Bush insists that he will be a "catalyst," not an imposer of solutions.

From Time Magazine Archive

David et Marc, pour lui en imposer davantage, affectèrent de se montrer fervens chrétiens.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard

Subscription to all human creeds implies two dispositions contrary to true religion, love of dominion over conscience in the imposer, and slavery in the subscribers.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Barker, Joseph

But now I have been utterly defeated, and have failed to discover what that is to which the imposer of names gave this name of temperance or wisdom.

From Charmides by Jowett, Benjamin