Imposed Quotations

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face.

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitations.

We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.

Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment.

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

On the Road' is a seminal book that gave voice to a whole generation -- capturing its hunger for experience, unwillingness to accept imposed truths and dissatisfaction with the status quo. It is as modern today as it was four decades ago.

No additional requirements are imposed on landowners and this board is not given any powers or authority other than to decide which projects meet the specified criteria.

My father imposed me, obliged me to follow in the family business. Possibly because there was a strong idea that the boy in the family or one of the boys in the family had to follow the family into business.

One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get their very best. Instead their fear, or the fear imposed by the publisher, will limit them. When I lock myself up to write, I cannot allow myself to think about the censor, or the reviewer, or anyone but my characters and their story.

one hopes each time you get a success like that, not only to have gotten rid of somebody dangerous, but to have imposed changes in their tactics and operations and procedures.

My concern is that what's happened here is that inflation is higher than the Fed anticipated. On top of that, the kind of tightening already imposed by the markets, in terms of lower equities and higher bond yields, is setting up weaker growth in 2005.

Nothing I say here could possibly be construed as making light of those horrible acts of violence, or of the responsibility imposed on the UK and other governments to keep the public safe, or of the difficult and dangerous task performed by the police and intelligence services.

NSA prides itself on learning the lessons of the 1970s and obeying the legal restrictions imposed by FISA. Now it looks like we're going back to the bad old days again.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

I have concluded that this is appropriate for a number of reasons related specifically to THG. These include uncertainty at this time as to whether suspensions based on pre-October 6 tests could be imposed during the 2003 season with the requisite competitive fairness for all 32 teams.

We're not being propelled in one direction or another by any external timetable that is being imposed upon us.

We recommend that a moratorium on the purchase and sale of South African land to non-citizens be imposed with immediate effect, as an interim measure until appropriate legislation has been promulgated.

Let me be clear, the Commission's position is that Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies imposed by the Commission's March 2004 decision, nothing more, nothing less. We are not moving goal posts, we are not changing our demands.

Much emphasis has been placed on the delays imposed on industry as it works to comply with seasonal stipulations, ... Certainly, an element of delay cannot be denied, but they are rarely overly burdensome.

Meat supplies a variety of nutrients - among them iron, zinc, and Vitamin B12 - that are not readily found in plants. We can survive without it; millions of vegetarians choose to do so, and billions of others have that choice imposed upon them by poverty.

Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction. With respect to the larger issue of steroids, Mr. Wells is obviously unaware that commissioner Selig has proposed a tougher steroid policy for the industry and that such a policy can be imposed only through collective bargaining.

Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act of 1996 made clear that interactive computer services could not be held liable as publishers or speakers of content posted by third parties. It also provides that no cause of action may be brought, and no liability may be imposed under any state or local law that is inconsistent with the section. And what he proposes is a state law that is inconsistent with that section.

Kids today are still as talented at manipulating the loopholes to the rules imposed on them by their parents, ... The entertainment industry is willing to aid and abet them.

Jail must be imposed to reflect the ongoing breach of trust, the considerable effect on the victims and the considerable amount of money,

I am the daughter of a Chicana and anglo. I think most days I am an embarrassment to both groups. I sometimes hate the white in me so viciously that I long to forget the commitment my skin has imposed upon my life.

Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on them, which often hinder rather than help our services to learners.

If a few of these are unavoidable, tariff caps should be imposed on them. Otherwise exemptions will simply derail market access however large the cut in tariffs and most of the potential welfare gains from global agricultural reform will simply not materialize.

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.

Hopefully, this prosecution and the significant sentences that were imposed today send a message that hazing is a crime that has serious consequences for its perpetrators,

We can help manufacturers address regulatory issues. Because U.S. manufacturers sell their products worldwide, they must meet emission regulations imposed by nations in Europe and Asia. We make the measurements companies need to improve their products.

Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

People who question some of the facts of the Holocaust are ostracized; most publishers are so sensitive they won't even get into the argument. A degree of censorship is imposed that is not articulated in this case.

Our position as regards the restrictions imposed by the European Union remains unchanged -- these sanctions are unsubstantiated, deliberate and useless.

Peace is a battle. Peace is never given freely, never acquired. Its conquest is the result of courage and of respect for others. It demands awareness and commitment from everyone. Peace is not the law imposed by the mighty, but that which is founded on equality and dignity of all peoples.

I think we should have moved significantly more schools, and altered the boundaries completely from what we have before us. I think those moves would have been a better long-term solution, and in the end there will be a penalty we shouldn't have imposed on ourselves, which would be having to do this again.

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament.

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament. I thought the job he did on Brown was outstanding. What he did (against the Gophers) was no less than incredible.

I think they imposed their will on us. They made tough shots and big shots and executed. They knocked us on our heels and they got us to go out of character.

It is incumbent on us to develop an executable option, or face the risk of a less desirable option being imposed upon us,

It is a much more helpful guide to when a corporate penalty will be imposed than how much.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

It is now clear that the costly regulatory burdens imposed by this legislation absolutely outweigh its benefits. The PCAOB and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act raise unconstitutional barriers to needed liquidity, discourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and hinder U.S. competitiveness by denying access to needed capital. Further, the high cost of compliance that disproportionately affects smaller public companies is having long-term, exponential negative implications for our economy.

It is now one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed that Microsoft had to comply with the remedies imposed by the March 2004 decision.

It goes without saying that Craig Gower can not find himself in this position again. This suspended fine may be only part of what he will face from the club and the league. We will be reviewing the matter when we have received a formal report from the club but, on the face of it, they have been through an exhaustive process and imposed a significant penalty.

You know, the press has kind of imposed upon me the title of Mourning Brother, and because I haven't been vocal about it, the assumption is that I'm holding onto this (stuff) that's just not there.

We don't have any objection to a ban being imposed on lobbyists buying food, beverages or other gifts for lawmakers and their staff. The Legislature simply went far beyond this prohibition, though, cutting deeply into our ability to communicate for our clients and invading the privacy of people who simply want their representatives to listen to them.

The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.

We need European and all foreign companies to be able to invest in upstream in Russia, and for Russian companies to be able to invest in downstream to provide transparency. Companies need to have a right to invest openly without any restrictions imposed by the state.

Microsoft is obliged to comply with the remedies which were imposed in the commission's 2004 decision, nothing more nothing less. We are not moving the goalposts as has been suggested, we are not changing our demands.

We hope this round will be a step toward achieving comprehensive settlement and a comprehensive solution, at the forefront of which comes a lifting of the embargo imposed on our people for more than 12 years,

We pushed it a little too far. We got caught with something NASCAR didn't like, they imposed a penalty on us, and we have to accept that.

We have repeatedly stated to our European partners that restrictive policy toward Belarus is groundless, far- fetched and useless. Real understanding and constructive cooperation are obviously reached through dialogue, but not imposed with sanctions.

What we asked for were weapons so that we could defend ourselves -- that's what we asked of the Soviet Union, of the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, of the Algerians, of the Vietnamese; and that's what we received so that we could arm the Nicaraguan people and defend ourselves in that war imposed on us by Ronald Reagan's Administration over a number of years.

We have imposed the strictest voting system tests in the country. We think this should be part of it too,

We have a situation where tariffs are imposed politically and we need to have an independent, non-political body that rules in favour of Canada or against Canada in a very expedient manner,

This would not have happened if the FAA would not have imposed flight caps. They are a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

There are a variety of operating restrictions that have been imposed on the operation of the casino resort itself . . . the market size is unknown.

When the U.S. wins, the coalition cheers, but when it loses, they whine and attack the dispute settlement process imposed by NAFTA.

We are deciding on how to step up our protests including strictly enforcing the general strike imposed since last week.

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

We will continue to communicate with management and seek a negotiated comprehensive agreement rather than accepting their imposed terms.

We will defy the curfew and all restrictions imposed by this regime and we will march to the heart of the capital to demand democracy.

True love does not eliminate legitimate differences, but harmonizes them in a superior unity, which is not imposed from the outside, but gives shape to the whole from inside.

We accepted full responsibility for the wrongdoing that occurred, and we felt that the loss of scholarships, extended probation, and other penalties imposed by the NCAA were an appropriately severe response to the violations. Our appeal was focused on the additional postseason ban, because we believed it fell disproportionately on the current, innocent players and coaches.

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Dr. Kaufman became dean at a time when the college and the university were reeling from the cuts that had been imposed by the state's Measure 5 bill. Under his leadership, the college has moved from dealing with significant program reductions to the point where it is recognized as one of the nation's finest education colleges.

Enough is enough. The sanctions have been imposed for reasons which don't exist any more and it's time to lift those sanctions,

Current budget procedures stack the deck in favor of program expansion without regard to the burdens imposed on current or future taxpayers.

Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed upon them, by the Constitution of the United States.