imposing

Speech parts

1. imposing - Noun

2. imposing - Adjective

3. imposing - Verb

5. imposing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Impose

Laying as a duty; enjoining.

Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle.

Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.

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Examples

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. Milan Kundera

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. Stephen Harper

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. John Aubrey

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. Paulo Freire

Liars begin by imposing on others, but end by deceiving themselves. American Proverb

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