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Se rehusaron a representar los papeles que sus padres y la sociedad deseaban imponerles.
They refused to play the roles their parents and society wanted to impose on them.
Solo dos o tres veces al año a cada uno, que no es mucho, pero tienen sus vidas y no me gustaría entrometerme ni imponerles mi presencia.
It’s only two or three times a year for each of them, which isn’t much, but they have full lives, and I don’t want to intrude or impose on them.”
Con Úrsula relegada a las tinieblas, y con Amaranta abstraída en la labor del sudario, la antigua aprendiza de reina tuvo libertad para seleccionar a los comensales e imponerles las rígidas normas que le inculcaran sus padres.
With Úrsula relegated to the shadows and with Amaranta absorbed In the work of her winding cloth, the former apprentice queen had the freedom to choose the guests and impose on them the rigid norms that her parents had taught her.
Todos los Estados que han optado por esta pena tienen el derecho a imponerla.
Every State that chose to do so had the right to impose the death penalty.
No era suficiente, sin embargo, idear un plan y tratar de imponerlo.
It was not enough, however, to come up with a scheme and try to impose it.
No tienen derecho a imponerle sus leyes al resto del mundo.
It has no right to impose its laws on the rest of the world.
Nadie puede imponerle nada a la Asamblea General.
No one can impose anything on the General Assembly.
en particular la prohibición de imponerles la pena capital
particular the prohibition of imposing capital
Él tenía sus ideas pero no le gustaba imponerlas sobre los demás.
Gronam did not like to impose his theories on other people;
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