impress something on/upon someone

impress | American Dictionary

impress
verb[ T ]
us/ɪmˈpres/
to cause someone to feel admiration or respect:
She impressed us with her sincerity.
If you impress something on someone, you cause them to understand its importance or value:
He always impressed on us the need to do our best.

Examples of impress

impress
What impresses more than the differences is the similarity in composition.
Most individuals will fail to be impressed by proposals the efficacy of which can only be established after they have been acted upon.
Rhinelanders, always much impressed by legality, existed in a state of limbo throughout the intervening period.
Despite high rates of war service disability, the benefits of military service, including emotional maturation and skill increases, impressed the researchers more.
As tradition leaves its impress upon fact, fact helps to remake tradition.
Thus, we are not impressed when they take the hypothetical existence of perfect virtual-reality devices to prove optic array ambiguity.
They insisted that the reserves of the system must be large enough to impress the markets.
Relatively little wealth was invested in goods that might be used primarily to impress other members of the elite.
Popes and kings, however, wanted this glory as a backdrop to their processions and celebrations, to impress the people and provide the required spectacle.
Likewise, a historian of art could be impressed by the effects of new technologies first used nonartistically - ceramics benefited from hotter, cheaper ovens, for example.
The shadow is seen due to the additional angular spread impressed on proton protons traversing the mesh wires.
Artists, impressed with the manner in which the natural processes around them have shaped the environment, guide these to shape artefacts of their own.
Questions also arise about the correspondence between voltage levels impressed on isolated bipolar cells relative to those found physiologically in the intact retina.
The visible effects of nutrient stress on plants are illustrated by monochrome photographs, some of which fail to impress.
The farmers, after repeated lobbying, finally impressed upon the consolidation officers the necessity of observing certain principles.
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