So it's not necessarily imposing other religions on them, but just kind of creating a sense of awareness in celebration of how different and diverse just within our classroom we are."

VOA: special.2009.12.24

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Most analysts view it more as a movement of various local groups with the common aim of imposing Islamic-based rule.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Under the controversial pact, the government agreed to the cleric's main demand of imposing Islamic law in the insurgency-hit districts.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

McCain said the United States, France,Britain and Germany should not wait for the United Nations before imposing their own stepped-up sanctions regime.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

But rather reason, he says, is attained by industry,by work, and it is developed first, he says, by the imposing of names on things, the correct names on things, and second by getting a good and orderly method of study.

他说，理性是通过辛勤的努力得来的，理性的形成，是通过使用事物的名称，事物正确的名称形成的，第二，是通过获得一种良好,而有有条不紊的学习方法形成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has insisted,repeatedly, that Iraq's security forces are capable of imposing law and order.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

Although smaller than the MRAP, the M-ATV is still an imposing vehicle, half-again as tall as the average person and weighing in at 18 metric tons.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"A sentence of 15 years imprisonment is not disproportionate to the crime and the needs of society so that an injustice would be done by imposing that sentence."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"By imposing a tax on every American who drives a car or flips on a light switch, this plan will drive up the prices for food, gasoline and electricity,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says his side is not imposing conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

While 29 of the 50 U.S.states have laws that protect the rights of smokers, Weyco an insurance benefits administrator in Michigan, began imposing random smoking tests in 2005 on its own employees.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Majority Democrats in the House and Senate crafted various legislative proposals that would try to recover funds by imposing sharp taxes on bonuses paid by companies that were rescued by government bail out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"I think there are many who realize that constantly imposing demands on the Iranians which they either have no intention or the capacity to fulfill for domestic political reasons has not gotten us very far over the last three or four years,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.19