enforce

Definition:
1. Ensure observance of laws and rules.
2. Compel to behave in a certain way.

Use 'enforce' in a sentence:

• 1. Until now, the government has only enforced the ban with regard to American ships.
• 2. The measures are being enforced by Interior Ministry troops.
• 3. If these countries can successfully enforce this legislation, the survival of tigers in the wild will be ensured.
• 4. They encourage students to meet others with different interests and to read widely to enforce their understanding in many fields of study.
• 5. You have no right to enforce your own views on me.
• 6. Boulder was one of the first cities in the nation to enforce a ban on smoking.
• 7. The above regulations are to be enforced immediately.
• 8. When the airlines decided to enforce these rules without giving anyone a heads-up, it created a lot of problems for travellers.
• 9. but if it benefits the majority it is useful. Substantial law defines rights, and procedural law establishes the procedures by which rights are protected and enforced.
• 10. Logically we should learn about things before doing them and that is presumably why the experts enforce this in our educational system.
• 11. Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
• 12. The council voted last night to enforce charges to the running group, that organises 850 5km runs in 12 countries.
• 13. A government efficiency expert has observed that almost all provisional arrests meet the standards for adequacy of evidence that the watch commanders enforce.
• 14. David is now living in Beirut again after an enforced absence.
• 15. It's the job of the police to enforce the law.
• 16. It's not yet clear who will actually enforce the blockade.
• 17. You need to create and efficiently enforce a formal legal code.
• 18. They allow us to enforce control .
• 19. The British realized that any attempt to enforce such laws would be ineffective.
• 20. The rules are stringently enforced.
• 21. The legislative branch enacts laws; the executive branch enforces them, and the judicial branch interprets them.
• 22. Desegregation may be harder to enforce in rural areas.
• 23. The White House has noted his promise to support any attack that was designed to enforce the UN resolutions.
• 24. On and after April 1st the new enactments shall be enforced.
• 25. China will now be a full partner in the global trading system, and will have the right and responsibility to fashion and enforce the rules of open trade.
• 26. He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire.
• 27. The database can enforce access control.
• 28. The teacher enforced the principles by examples.
• 29. They have no means, short of civil war, to enforce their will upon the minorities.
• 30. This reform must be enforced.
• 31. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.
• 32. Enforce healthy bedtimes — for you and the kids.
• 33. The other half is to enforce those rules.
• 34. Only four countries enforce it.
• 35. A government efficiency expert has found that almost all provisional arrests meet standards for adequacy of evidence that watch commanders enforce.
• 36. They enforce conformity.
• 37. Game wardens were appointed to enforce hunting laws in New Hampshire.
• 38. Clearly, the police cannot break the law in order to enforce it.
• 39. We enforce decision rights in processes.
• 40. The "sobriety tags", to be worn around the clock, will enforce abstinence by measuring a person's perspiration1 every 30 minutes and testing to see if it contains alcohol.
• 41. The legislation will be difficult to enforce.
• 42. To enforce multi-tenant deployments.
• 43. The police don't make the laws, they merely enforce them.
• 44. He warned that if the President tried to enforce control, the country would be sucked into a power vacuum.
• 45. You can't enforce cooperation between the players.
• 46. After a period of enforced idleness, she found a new job.
• 47. In practical terms this law may be difficult to enforce.
• 48. United Nations troops enforced a ceasefire in the area.
• 49. They have responsibility for ensuring that the rules are enforced.
• 50. It is their responsibility to ensure that the rules are enforced.
• 51. They struggled to limit the cost by enforcing a low-tech specification.
• 52. The speed limit must be rigidly enforced.
• 53. Absence diminished as the new regulations are enforced.
• 54. The law must have teeth, and it must be enforced.