impose
verb (used with object)
to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc..
imposer
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a word derived from
impose.
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
Thus the imposer of conditions of reconstruction has now become the foremost friend of the unconditioned return of the Rebel States.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
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 Benjamin Jowett
For this Teacher is no theoretical handler of abstract propositions, but the authoritative imposer of the law of life, and all His words have a direct bearing upon conduct.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
