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Expectations, reasonable or unrealistic, remain so even if we impose them on ourselves.

The United Nations was prompted to impose a ban on selling mainframe computers or laptops to North Korea.

The United States has tools to impose costs on the North Koreans.

We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.

I make a distinction between personal essays and memoir, which is a personal distinction, not one I would impose upon others.

Any delay in covering such deficit shall be subject to such charge as the Federal Reserve Board may impose.

Hence, in their professed attempt to aid the memory, they really impose a new and additional burden upon it.

An attempt to impose an imitation on a practised judge is always productive of an unpleasant result.

But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.

Moreover, it must be prejudicial to the national interest to impose parliamentary taxes.