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enforce

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


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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

Chinese authorities have slowly taken steps to shut down sellers and enforce export controls on the substances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Other campaigns helped introduce the replacement of hard surfaces in children's playgrounds with softer material and a change in the law to enforce the wearing of children's seat belts in the rear of cars.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

Hong Kong’s government said it vigorously enforces United Nations sanctions but not those imposed unilaterally by individual nations, which it says violate international law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

He also questioned how the new measures will be enforced.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

U.S. law bars foreign armed forces from recruiting on American soil, but the statute is rarely enforced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The law can be "enforced against any provider, starting from the testing phase, if they experience a loss of control that affects the EU's internal market," including cyberattacks and biological or chemical misuse, Regnier said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

But all of this is uncharted territory for Congress, as Briffault explained: “The problem is, the laws have never been significantly enforced because they’ve never been violated in such an egregious way,” he said.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren, thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Last Monday the education ministry in Azerbaijan began enforcing new uniform rules, turning away female pupils wearing hijabs.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Trax acknowledged "periods of elevated temperature" but said cooling systems were in place and insisted its approach "is not based on enforcing output targets".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Horvath cited recent Los Angeles Times reporting on the challenges victims face when obtaining and enforcing restraining orders as an inspiration for the Board of Supervisors motion, which was co-authored by board chair Hilda Solis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that a commission enforcing a state antidiscrimination law had violated Phillips’s religious rights by displaying hostility toward his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Nelson argued that he was simply enforcing the law.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John


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