foist

Object

• policy: He blamed them for foisting unpopular policies on the party which had been attacked by our opponents in the election.
• menu: The Washington Consensus was, I think, a shallow and self-serving policy menu opportunistically foisted upon poor countries by the rich.
• fraud: Absolute fraud foisted on the people of the North East.
• food: It is ridiculous for Europeans to accuse the WTO of trying to foist dangerous food on them.
• technology: Mr Austin should support BICC in looking forward, not in foisting old technology unnecessarily on Cleveland and Yorkshire.

Preposition: on

• public: People seem to like the stuff they foist on an unsuspecting public.
• country: This is fundamentally no different from the tired old trade formula that has been foisted on these countries for generations.
• community: He referred to the Castlederg area and spoke of the out-of-hours service which was foisted on the local community without any prior consultation.
• people: The Gospel should never be foisted on people by means of a ' catch ' or a gimmick.
• child: The media violence overkill is an ingredient in a global marketing formula imposed on media professionals and foisted on the children of the world.

Preposition: upon

• country: The Washington Consensus was, I think, a shallow and self-serving policy menu opportunistically foisted upon poor countries by the rich.
• world: RAFI is not fundamentally opposed to biotechnology, but we have profound concerns about the way it is being foisted upon the world.

Modifying Another Word

• ever: This is the single most unpopular, unwanted nanny state legislation ever foisted upon the Scottish nation.
• not: In the words of Cass Mann: " We are not foisting ideas on the unsuspecting public.
• then: The United States, single-handedly, started this war in the first place, then foisted it on the rest of the world.
• opportunistically: The Washington Consensus was, I think, a shallow and self-serving policy menu opportunistically foisted upon poor countries by the rich.
• often: The role of IT co-ordinator is shunned by staff with a Luddite tendency and often foisted onto an unwilling member.
• never: The film just lets us sit back and smile, never foisting any messages on us and avoiding the usual annoying sentimentality.

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off: Twenty eight per cent of the UKâs pets are foisted off onto substitute carers in the form of family and friends.