On supporting local leadership and ideas, rather than imposing our own."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

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It's instead a process of organizing pre-existing materials And imposing order on those chaotic materials.

相反，它是一个组织原来存在物质的过程,并且给这些混乱的物质赋予秩序。

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If I'm saying that markets are inherently unstable, I'm also saying that imposing market discipline means imposing instability.

CNN: THE SEARCH FOR STABILITY

More than a year later, neither side in the contraception debate was happy with the FDA's surprise twist, which many perceived as an attempt to find a palatable middle ground between imposing an age limit of 17 and imposing no limit at all.

NPR: Justice Department Appeals Morning-After Case

It depends on Congress and the president not only imposing Medicare cuts that they have proven unwilling to make but also imposing cuts that they have already specifically undone, most notably to Medicare Advantage, a program that helps millions of seniors pay for private health plans.

WSJ: Daniel Kessler: ObamaCare's Broken Promises