But democracy cannot be imposed by force.

He's always trying to impose his will.

Tom is always trying to impose his will on others.

When we try to impose democracy, we tarnish it.

When we try to impose democracy, we tarnish it.

Similarly, Bush recognizes that outsiders cannot force liberty on people.

Meanwhile, the opacity of capital indicators has made market discipline impossible to impose.

The attempt to impose a benevolent creditors dictatorship is now being met by a debtors revolt.

The government s desire to impose its will on the majority of the country is therefore potentially dangerous.

That is why it is so important that governments allow financial firms to fail occasionally. That is the only way to impose real discipline on shareholders, bondholders, and corporate leaders.

That is the only way to impose real discipline on shareholders, bondholders, and corporate leaders.

So religion cannot be imposed individuals must practice it according to their own decisions.

Predictably, some accuse Google of seeking to impose its own values on a foreign culture.

Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.

But attempts to implement socialist or communist ideals through force ended in oppression and mass murder.

But the Wahhabis tried to appropriate Mecca for their own version of Islam, and to export their exclusionary doctrine.

Modernization should be carried out by self governing people, not imposed by foreign force.

In the past, the US has insisted on trying to impose its own models of development and democratization on foreign countries.

(Intervening in contractual relations ex post to enforce union demands is an emerging characteristic of the administration).

Its demise reflects the destructive power of the narrative about the peace process that the right succeeded in persuading many Israelis to accept.

Trying to force carbon cuts instead of investing first in research puts the cart before the horse.

If Fed Chair Janet Yellen has to assert her will over the FOMC for a while, so be it.

A regime which can not provide oxygen for its citizens claim to export its way of governing to the whole world.

Rich and poor nations have different needs in the areas of labor standards or patent protection. Moreover, poor countries need the space to follow developmental policies that richer countries no longer require.

A radical minority is using violence to impose a simplified and ideological version on a mainstream with more diverse views.

When countries use trade to impose their institutional preferences on others, the result is erosion of trade's legitimacy.

And, perversely, American neo conservatives have transformed the internationalism of the old left by seeking to impose a democratic world order by US military force.

But neither the G 20 nor the IMF can impose its will on national governments nor should they.

A radical minority is using violence to impose a simplified and ideological version on a mainstream with more diverse views.

I believe that the attempt by President Putin s Kremlin to impose liberal empire or sovereign democracy on the post Soviet states will fail.

In the end, reconstruction and reconciliation are the only viable means to bring stability, since it cannot be imposed.

At such times, resolute American steps can stop the fighting and impose a cease fire, if not peace.

In other areas, such as science and industry, the impulse to impose one s views on the world encounters the resistance of external reality.

America s intellectual property regime and the regime that the US has helped to foist upon the rest of the world through the TRIPS agreement is unbalanced.

There is no real respect for our culture, they just want to impose external ways of life that are not aligned with ours.

I'd like to play, but I'm such a huge mug I'm afraid I won't be competitive, so it won't be fun.

Allowing them to frame these problems in religious terms legitimizes the perspective that they are attempting to impose, particularly in their own societies.It also allows them to camouflage their very worldly thirst for power.

At the same time, in much of the Muslim world, authoritarian regimes typically attempt to control and propagate exclusionary forms of Islamic dogma.

More and more members of a governmental machine that thought it could impose a fraudulent election on Ukraine s people are shying away from imposing that choice by force.

There is nothing new in the mistrust of the masses expressed by people like Chubais or Yurgens, or in Medvedev s putative desire to impose modernization from the top.

Others believe that China will wish to impose its own mark and create its own international institutional system as its power increases.

Nuremberg happened because the Allies inflicted unconditional surrender on the Nazis and so could impose a so called victor s justice.

Namibia's President Sam Nujoma complains that the West wants to impose its decadent sexual values on Africa through the guise of gay tolerance.

Indeed, from coup to dictatorship to war to sanctions, the US has racked up more than 60 continuous years of trying to impose its will on Iran.

In earlier times, such controversies were decided by political authorities, which used military force to impose one particular point of view at the expense of all others.