As UCLA law professor Stephen Yeazell has pointed out, the most likely reason is that the abysmally poor transportation, communications, and administrative apparatus of medieval times made it impossible for the English sovereign to directly manage the entire country in terms of individuals ; it was easier to structure society by imposing obligations upon groups which were enforced by the sporadic use of force.

From the columns being only partially fluted, as well as from other signs, it is clear that it never was completed ; but all the more important parts of the structure were finished, and it must have certainly been one of the most imposing fabrics in antiquity.

* A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place ; " there was a three-storey building on the corner "; " it was an imposing edifice "

The imposing white washed structure, as seen now, has undergone several renovations over the centuries following fires and earthquakes.

It was extensively re-modelled and virtually rebuilt in 1741, the present plan of the imposing structure attributed to Andrea Belli.

An imposing structure and high.

This imposing structure is Cookstown's finest piece of architectural heritage.

This Court House was an imposing structure for the time.

The school was kept in two buildings, one the large two-story stone structure erected in 1868, and having an imposing appearance with its twin towers.

Called The Metallak after Native American chief Metallak, the imposing Victorian structure was designed by architect John Calvin Stevens, and intended to attract tourists arriving by railroad to escape the summer heat and pollution in big cities.

Built as the Stickler Memorial Library, the imposing structure designed by McKim, Mead, and White opened in 1901.

The town's oldest surviving monument is the Assumption Cathedral ( 1689 ), an imposing structure surmounted by five globular domes.

The Babri Masjid was a large imposing structure with three domes, one central and two secondary.

The original structure was made of pink granite and was marked by an imposing, sober colonnade of Roman unfluted version of classical Greek Doric columns.

The tower of the church is a most imposing structure and it may well be that here was a place of refuge for parishioners in time of attack from marauders across the North Sea.

Argentina improved on the Chilean model by imposing strict limits on market concentration and by improving the structure of payments to units held in reserve to assure system reliability.

The purpose of the ornamentation was to make the structure appear imposing, grand and expensive.

From this period survived under a yard of a Mycenaean palace, an imposing circular structure 28 meters in diameter, which should be a fortress or a residence of a king.

This 42 m ( 140 ft ) high imposing octagonal structure holds 14, 201 people ( arena seats: 2, 762, 1st floor seats: 3, 199, 2nd floor seats: 7, 760, standee: 480 ) and is modeled after Yumedono ( Hall of Dreams ) in Hōryū-ji in Nara.

The Wightman axioms restrict the causal structure of the theory by imposing either commutativity or anticommutativity between spacelike separated fields.

Unlike local quantum field theory, the Wightman axioms restrict the causal structure of the theory explicitly by imposing either commutativity or anticommutativity between spacelike separated fields, instead of deriving the causal structure as a theorem.

This wooden structure was replaced by a far more defensible stone castle during the reign of Henry II, and was imposing and of a complex architectural design, which eventually comprised an upper bailey at the highest point of the castle rock, a middle bailey to the north which contained the main royal apartments, and a large outer bailey to the east.

A parade of shops was incorporated into the design each side of the imposing station entrance and the structure was designed from the beginning with the intention of enabling upward development, however this did not come until the 1960s when an office building was added.

The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1906 and replaced by the Horticultural Building, an additional imposing structure of brick and stone.

But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

That imposing, somewhat austere, and seemingly remote collonaded building with the sphynxes perched on its threshold at 1733 16th St. nw. took on bustling life yesterday.

Violence and looting break out on a small scale, and the authorities respond by declaring martial law and imposing a curfew.

The sponsor should preferably have experience of all twelve of the steps, be the same gender as the sponsored person, and refrain from imposing personal views on the sponsored person.

All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.

This was followed in 2001 by additional legislation imposing penalties on noncompliant insurers.

I do not attach undue importance to this movement, but it is increasingly difficult to meet the argument that it is unfair to ask the British taxpayer, already overwhelmed with taxation, to bear the cost of imposing on Palestine an unpopular policy.

Some see the criminalization of " victimless crimes " as a pretext for imposing personal, religious or moral convictions on otherwise productive citizens or taxpayers.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment.

Thereby more data is collected but not imposing a burden on the whole population.

Lucien Pissarro was taught painting by his father, and described him as a “ splendid teacher, never imposing his personality on his pupil .” Gauguin, who also studied under him, referred to Pissarro “ as a force with which future artists would have to reckon ”.

In turn, imposing restrictions on the available resources is what distinguishes computational complexity from computability theory: the latter theory asks what kind of problems can, in principle, be solved algorithmically.

Building on third-century trends towards absolutism, he styled himself an autocrat, elevating himself above the Empire's masses with imposing forms of court ceremonies and architecture.

On March 25, 2010, Defense Secretary Gates announced new rules mandating that only flag officers could initiate discharge proceedings and imposing more stringent rules of evidence on discharge proceedings.

If the current is driven in the opposite direction by imposing an external potential, then work is done on the cell to drive electrolysis.

Freenet attempts to remove the possibility of any group imposing their beliefs or values on any data.

At Cofete on the western side of Jandía a remote and imposing house-Villa Winter-looks out to sea across wide and generally empty beaches.

Prussia tried to remain neutral while imposing tight controls on dissent, but with German nationalism sharply on the rise, the small nation blundered by going to war with Napoleon in 1806.

During the 1960s, Spain began imposing restrictions on Gibraltar, culminating in the closure of the border in 1969.

The arrival of the Hittites in Anatolia in prehistoric times was one of a superstrate imposing itself on a native culture, either by means of

In response to the coup, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 841 imposing international sanctions and an arms embargo on Haiti.