Imposing
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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Imposing Quotations
Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
Mitt Romney
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
Roald Dahl
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.
Michael Polanyi
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
Mike Fitzpatrick
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
Charles Horton Cooley
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.
Esther Dyson
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
Douglas Wood
Imposing Translations
imposing in Dutch is imponerend, indrukwekkend
imposing in French is imposant
imposing in Norwegian is imponerende
imposing in Portuguese is impo
imposing in Spanish is imponente
imposing in Swedish is imponerande
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