Imposition
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
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Imposition Quotations
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann
An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.
Nestor Kirchner
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Bill Condon
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.
Claudio Hummes
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
Henry Flynt
Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
Alexander Dubcek
Imposition Translations
imposition in German is Strafarbeit {f}, Auferlegung {f}
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