"And it looks like it is only going to get worse with no strong imposition of security or authority even after the election."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The frightening experience that Yeats evokes here is the imposition of the divine on the human.

这里写的这种令人害怕的体验,圣对人的强占。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Reason consists in the imposition of a method for the conquest of nature.

理性存在于,对征服自然的方法的强迫接受之中。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In July 1989, Mr.Gorbachev formally renounced the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy which had justified the Soviet imposition of communist party rule in the East European satellite states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03