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Photographers are always imposing
He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.
Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.
I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.
I can try to convince somebody else of my beliefs, but I should not be imposing.
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.
America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
Wind turbines are imposing structures and definitely not the kind of thing one wants to see from a golf course.
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.
I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.
You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden.
People know excessive consumption of anything is bad for health. By imposing a ban on something, we are, in a way, provoking them to do it.
You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?
On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from inside. It's much more intense.
Some conservatives say that whether it's popular or unpopular, imposing strict limits on immigration is the right thing to do, and it must be defended.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.
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.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
I feel fame shouldn't necessarily get me going, but I understand it is part of the job. Sometimes, it is inconvenient and unnecessarily imposing in your personal life.
When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.