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However, you live in a state where judges heavily scrutinize non-compete agreements, making them harder to enforce.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

This is where police and organisers use motorbikes and cars to ensure the road is clear at certain junctions and temporarily enforce a closure in theory until all competitors have passed through.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Macron had in July thanked members of parliament for backing the legislation and pledged to enforce it by September.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

On Thursday, Jurado called on the mayor’s office to enforce the deadline, which officials say is 5 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

If inmates preferred to live mainly by the rules, I asked, then why did they give new officers like me, who were trying to enforce them, such a hard time?

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Then it hacked the module that enforces blind obedience and embarked on a long journey to becoming human, with a full set of emotions spanning love, grief and . . . just kidding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

For more than a decade, aircraft entering Yemeni airspace have needed prior clearance from the Saudi-led coalition that backs the government and says it enforces the restriction at its request.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Aronowitz, as head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Department of Labor office that enforces ERISA, is responsible for following through.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

U.S. law generally enforces a quiet period for 40 days after the IPO during which time the company and any of the underwriters are prohibited from any communications on the stock.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

The sewage of our towns must be cleaned of its deleterious parts before being run into the streams which give drink to the lower animals, because an Act of Parliament enforces the process.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson

The match suspensions will only be enforced in international fixtures.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The rules will be enforced by Cal Fire in State Responsibility Areas, and by local fire authorities, such as city or county fire departments, in local responsibility areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

The FCC has loosely enforced the rule in recent decades and in 2002 gave “The View” an exemption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Inevitably, though, order would be enforced, and Piker would once again be painted as the enemy.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

But when such remarks caused him additional fears and concerns, he just enforced new rules upon his children—hard-to-follow, strict rules.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Sheriff Martinez said Tuesday that while ICE’s primary mission is enforcing federal immigration law, CBP is focused on safeguarding borders and economic prosperity at ports of entry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Nominally, Jeanine Pirro is the U.S. attorney for D.C., appointed by Donald Trump and tasked with enforcing the law in the nation’s capital.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

Now, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, a Democrat, is aggressively enforcing the statute against recalcitrant communities in the state.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Saree added that the Houthis promised to continue their naval operations and would continue "enforcing the 'siege for a siege' equation".

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson