Sentence examples of "imposant" in French

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Le whisky fut imposé d'une lourde taxe. A heavy tax was imposed on whiskey.
Je pense qu'ils devraient imposer une lourde taxe à l'importation. I think they should put a heavy tax on imports.
Même les plus gracieux et les plus imposants bâtiments peuvent maintenant être tellement tristement rabaissés, jusqu'à sembler légèrement ridicules, à côté du monstre. Even the most graceful and imposing existing buildings may now be so sadly diminished as to seem slightly ridiculous beside the monster.
Le roi imposa de lourdes taxes sur le peuple. The king imposed heavy taxes on the people.
Un couvre-feu a été imposé dans la ville. A curfew was imposed on the city.
Il est étonnant de constater que les Iraniens, auxquels les Arabes ont imposé l'Islam en les battant militairement, sont devenus ses plus zélés adeptes au point d'opprimer ceux du Zoroastrisme, qui est pourtant la religion de leurs propres pères. Une sorte de syndrome de Stockholm à l'échelle nationale. It is astonishing to witness that the Iranians, onto whom the Arabs imposed Islam through military defeat, have become its most zealous followers to the point of oppressing those of Zoroastrianism, though it is the religion of their own fathers. A kind of Stockholm syndrome on the national scale.
Il était imposant, pour ne pas dire gros. He was large, not to say fat.
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