reimpose

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Recent Examples of reimpose The terrorist designation reimposes sanctions on Cuba's government, cutting off funds to the corrupt regime. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 Washington should instead adopt a gradual approach, working with its European partners, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, to trigger, or threaten to trigger, the snapback mechanism contained in the Iran deal, which would reimpose UN Security Council sanctions predating the JCPOA on Iran. Nicole Grajewski, Foreign Affairs, 28 Jan. 2025 Despite roughly 15 months of a brutal military campaign, in the days since the ceasefire commenced, Hamas has deployed its fighters to the streets to oversee aid convoys, reimpose security, stop looting, and start restoring basic services to parts of Gaza, according to Reuters. Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Jan. 2025 Trump reimposed the sanctions and introduced additional punitive measures. Dan De Luce, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reimpose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reimpose
Verb
  • Those members — all of whom have to reapply for accreditation each year — were offered a chance to stay on as Globes voters for the next telecast in January 2026, but will not be paid for future shows.
    Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Homeowners aged 65 and over and low-income homeowners with disabilities would be eligible for an optional exemption from the parcel tax cost but must apply, although those who are currently exempt would not have to reapply.
    Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Other attendees used accessories – of sorts – to relay their disapproval of some of Trump’s views.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Company officials have said that such a network could be used to relay communications, telemetry or other data between different spacecraft on the moon.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • European states are already some of the highest spending in the world and that gives them little option for extra spending without inflicting severe pain.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Wall Street has been hoping the threats are merely leverage that Trump will use to negotiate with other countries before ultimately inflicting less pain on the economy than feared.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • If the court finds that Musk is the child's father, St. Clair can then compel him to pay child support.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Mulligan invites Thompson — after her Misty used magic to compel the dragon to dance as a distraction — to roll for the dragon’s power to resist it.
    Eric Francisco, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Tracking the Trump administration’s rollback of climate and environmental policies can seem like being forced through a wormhole back in time.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The episode opened right where the last one left off — Britney was forced to decide Danielle’s fate at the roundtable after Danielle and Ivar tied in votes at the penultimate banishment ceremony.
    Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Then came that 2019 flood, which wreaked more havoc than both of the previous events combined.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
  • If sanctions wreaked too much havoc on Russia, the fallout would quickly reach Europe and then the United States.
    Edward Fishman, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The White House imposed 25% across-the-board tariffs on Mexican imports and on nearly all Canadian imports early Tuesday.
    Bryan Mena, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Trump, on Monday, imposed an additional 10% tariff on Chinese products, adding on top of a 10% duty in February.
    Alex Thomas, arkansasonline.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Trump’s rocky relationship with Zelensky goes back five years—to when Trump first held up military assistance Congress had authorized for Ukraine to coerce Zelensky into investigating his political rival Joe Biden.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • A week later, the White House used the threat of tariffs to coerce Mexico into dispatching thousands of additional troops along the U.S.-Mexico border to combat fentanyl smuggling.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025

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“Reimpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reimpose. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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