embargo, foist,hammered out, impose mandatory restrictions on

The idea that Greeks voted against austerity even though austerity was foisted upon them is an oversimplification of the forces at work http://econ.st/1TCqcM1

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AS THE Greek deal was being hammered out on Sunday, and the harsh details leaked out, the hashtag #thisisacoup trended on Twitter. The people of Greece had voted...

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TOKYO May 12 (Reuters) - Japan will not impose mandatory restrictions on power consumption in parts of the country this summer, relying instead on voluntary saving measures following the shutting down of nuclear power reactors, the Yomiuri newspaper ...

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foist
tr.v., foist·ed, foist·ing, foists.

1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" (J.D. Salinger).
2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss.
3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.

[Probably Dutch dialectal vuisten, to take in hand, from Middle Dutch, from vuist, fist.]

embargo
(ĕm-bär'gō)
n., pl., -goes.

1. A government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
2. A prohibition by a government on certain or all trade with a foreign nation.
3. A prohibition; a ban: an embargo on criticism.

tr.v., -goed, -go·ing, -goes.
To impose an embargo on.

[Spanish, from embargar, to impede, from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, to barricade : Latin in-, in; see en-¹ + Vulgar Latin *barricāre, to barricade (from *barrīca, barrel, barrier , from *barra, bar, barrier).]