Synonyms:
enforce, impose
Meaning: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy"
Synonyms:
inflict, bring_down, visit, impose
Meaning: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students"
Synonyms:
levy, impose
Meaning: impose and collect; "levy a fine"
Usage examples
In no case wrong him, or impose upon him laws.
I understood him to mean that he had prospered in his attempt to impose on Lady Georgina.
Did they impose on each industry a proportional tax, so as to preserve a balance in the market?
Mr. Clerk, will you tell us, please, what is the very stiffest penalty we can impose for each of these offences?
(Discusses the circumstances under which society has the right to forbid divorce, or to impose limitations upon it.)
He therefore resolved to banish him and to impose such tasks upon him as must certainly bring about his destruction.
The object of respect is the law only, and that the law which we impose on ourselves and yet recognise as necessary in itself.
Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine. Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.
After what you told me about Miss Kircher, and knowing that you dislike her, I feel that it is not fair to her and to you that we should impose longer upon you.
In the Ottoman or Turkish empire, the sovereign, though in other respects absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects, has no right to impose a new tax.