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Australia became the first country to enforce a social media ban for under 16s in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Some Western growers believe Chinese growers have been mixing illicitly obtained protected varieties with other blueberry plants, making it harder to enforce intellectual-property claims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay praised the "extraordinary bravery" of survivors but urged ministers to strengthen bail laws and "robustly enforce breaches".

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

“We enforce traffic laws throughout the city,” Oldoerp said, adding that the department is “very aggressive with street racing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

By law, it was the Treasury Department that had to enforce these acts, and Elizebeth and her team were the Treasury’s “eyes and ears.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

“The United States enforces the federal antitrust laws and has a strong interest in their correct application,” the Justice Department said in a Tuesday filing, describing its unique position to bring antitrust actions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Boland said Ofcom, which enforces the OSA, should be encouraged use it to "crack down on irresponsible online platforms that leave consumers wide open to fraud".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

Life itself—social life that is—to a very considerable extent enforces religious teaching.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen

To be fair, I don’t know how a quiet-phone rule is supposed to be enforced, short of officers patrolling trains all day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

But some people interviewed by the BBC said this requirement is not enforced.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

A small group of men hoards wealth and resources, while the peasant class is heavily taxed, laws brutally enforced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Across the country, access to recess remains a patchwork, shaped by how laws are enforced.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

The housing code was rarely enforced, and its most important mechanism, the power of the city to correct code violations and bill landlords, was not once exercised by the city council, which oversaw housing issues.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In each of those cases, what we have witnessed is the court enforcing federal statutes.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Navy ships are enforcing a blockade that has shut down its oil exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

It created a national authority capable of enforcing existing EU regulations, which had already formally come into force.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

As well as enforcing the minimum wage, the agency also will soon tackle practices of denying workers holiday and sick pay.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Only fifteen hundred field federal agents were assigned the enormous task of enforcing Prohibition.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler