enforce

[ɪnˈfɔːrs]

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.