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enforce

[en-fawrs, -fohrs] / ɛnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /


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"We requested that the US side strictly enforce discipline among its personnel, implement effective measures to prevent a recurrence, and ensure full compliance with the nighttime curfew," Koizumi told reporters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

"Whether or not this merger proceeds, we will fully enforce delivery workers' rights," it added.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

But didn’t they just enforce it with 28 cases?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Originally scheduled for January 2026, the compliance deadline was proposed to be extended to July 2028; Congress subsequently directed the FDA not to enforce the rule before then.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

At Rob’s suggestion, we’d decided to enforce a two o’clock turn-around time: anybody who wasn’t within spitting distance of the summit by two p.m. had to turn around and go down.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

"China enforces some of the world's strictest firearm control laws and regulations," it wrote, adding that China is "widely recognised as one of the safest countries globally".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Azerbaijan is constitutionally secular and the government strongly enforces that.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

“My Office enforces the law without fear or favor,” Santa Clara Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

If it enforces restrictions loosely, more transactions get through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Econom. i. 4-8-9.648.Plutarch enforces the duty at length, in his very beautiful work on marriage.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Mazari and Chattha are prominent human rights lawyers who have represented activists, journalists and marginalised communities subjected to enforced disappearances.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In practice, its ability to impose its will is circumscribed by deference to provincial and indigenous prerogatives, often enforced by courts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

One ambitious report published by the think tank floated the radical idea of curbing the credit-card swipe fees enforced at grocery stores.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Both the Los Angeles Police Department and city attorney’s office declined to answer questions about how the new ordinance would be enforced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Over the next several days there was a strained, tightly wound quality to the way they treated each other, a rigid correctness that was enforced by repetitive acts of willpower.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor also pushed back against the idea that enforcing antidiscrimination laws against recipients of state funds is itself discrimination.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

Reddit has highlighted a number of issues in its written submission to the court, pointing to problems enforcing the ban and a lack of scientific evidence about the harms of social media.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

But responsibility for enforcing those limits is increasingly falling to organizations, institutions and individuals outside of the legislative branch.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

At University of Pennsylvania, students have bemoaned the 100-person limits on parties since the school started widely enforcing the policy last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Instead of the classic newjack mistake of enforcing a rule that nobody really cared about, I had just enforced a rule that wasn’t a rule, for my “brother in gray.”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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