impress something on somebody

Impress on him he's not to give up the phone to anyone at all.

It was impressed on them that they were less able than the others.

One such place has impressed itself on my memory beyond all others.

Maybe he wanted to impress on me that even if I didn't want him, others did.

But soldiers are often too few in number to impress their language on a population.

"And did you impress on these people the fact that they'd be dead if they hadn't come with us?"

That idea would have been impressed on them in all kinds of ways.

A husband must impress on his wife that he was in charge.

That's the first point I wish to impress on you.

And she impressed on me that I wasn't to say a word to a soul.