impose hardship

Examples (10)

• The new tax laws will impose significant hardship on low-income families.
• The prolonged drought imposed severe hardship on farmers in the region.
• Critics claim the austerity measures unfairly impose hardship on the poor.
• A company should not impose undue hardship on its employees during a restructuring.
• The court ruled that the decision would impose an unreasonable hardship on the defendant.
• Economic sanctions are designed to impose hardship on a country's leadership, but often affect civilians the most.
• The wartime rationing imposed hardship on everyone, regardless of their social status.
• Why does the new policy impose such great hardship on small business owners?
• Great hardship was imposed upon the population during the great famine.
• The goal of the aid is to alleviate suffering, not to impose further hardship.