Munira Mirza

To challenge the dominance of identity politics, we need to champion an alternative universalist approach. This wouldn't mean bland similarity, with everybody talking and looking the same. Instead, it would help us challenge the imposition of formal, ethnic categories and allow us to develop richer differences based on character and interests.

British Public Servant

Noam Chomsky

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.

American Activist

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

American Writer

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

American Clergyman

Wole Soyinka

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.

Nigerian Dramatist

Nguyen Phu Trong

We must choose dialogue over confrontation, and peaceful settlement of disputes over unilateral acts of imposition.

Vietnamese Politician

William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

English Playwright

Nestor Kirchner

An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition.

Argentinian Statesman

Golda Meir

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Israeli Leader

Imposition usually signifies a lack of choice in accepting a new rule or idea.

Mandatory Nature

When something is imposed, it's done by someone in power, like a government or organization.

Authority Involved

The word often carries a negative feeling, implying forced or unwelcome decisions.

Negative Connotation

Imposition in this sense expresses the speaker’s worry of being a trouble to others.

Personal Discomfort

Used to politely decline something by suggesting it's an inconvenience.

Offer Decline

Refers to the compulsory payment required by law, often specifically taxes or tariffs.

Financial Obligation

Usually associated with formal actions taken by authorities to control trade or revenue.

Governmental Action

Relates to formal punishments or corrections imposed by a legal body or court.

Legal Consequences

The term is often used in a legal context where a judge is delivering a verdict or sentence.

Judicial Authority

In legal contexts, imposition indicates a significant and sometimes severe measure.

Seriousness Implied

 And the third is other-oriented perfectionism, the imposition of unrealistic standards on other "If I ask somebody to do something, I expect it to be done perfectly." Now, research shows that all three elements of perfectionism associate with compromised mental health, including things like heightened depression, heightened anxiety and suicide ideation.

Our dangerous obsession...

 So the kid -- she was a kid! -- what she should have said is, "My lawyer will be calling you first thing in the morning. It's an outrageous imposition on my Fourth Amendment right to privacy. You'll be sued for all the money you've got!" That's what she should have said. But she's a kid, so she hands over the password. The teacher can't log in,

David Birch: A new way...

 and set in place with my birthstones. The gift of queerness is options. I never had to choose his last name, it was never an exception, but I did because I am my father's bastard child, someone who has always been an apology, a secret, an imposition. And it was incredibly freeing

A queer vision of love...

 the imposition of Roman law affected everyone's life here in the first century the Romans divided their soldiers into legions which were groups of six thousand men they had 30 legions but they were scattered throughout the empire there were only about 500 Roman

Arresting Jesus PIPE...

 as to how to put together a legal economy. The poverty of our knowledge must become the first basis of moving forward, and not imposition of the framework that works on the basis of mathematical modeling, for which I have enormous respect.

Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...

 in order to live we interpret what we see select the most workable of the multiple choices we live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images by the idea with which we learn to freeze the shifting

The art of choosing -...

 I think it's important to keep in mind that the prevailing notions of man and woman as static genders anchored strictly on biological sex are social constructs. In my people's case, this social construct is an imposition.

The gender-fluid history...

 in order to live. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images,

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 it'll be you two there that I can see it yeah excellent very good oops back this imposition flying coming back so behind that Villita that is the very fast Den but

Safari Live - Day 308 PIPE...

 contradictory translation of a voluntary imposition he invited the citizens of burrata to pay an extra ten percent from its legal tax obligations to support a