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"Enforce" in a Sentence (26 examples)
The government must enforce the law immediately.
The Sioux tribe asked the government to enforce the treaty.
The laws were very difficult to enforce.
Those who enforce the law must obey the law.
I think the police should enforce the laws that are on the books.
I enforce the rules even though I don't agree with them all.
Despite having signed a secret pact, Italy failed to enforce all its claims on foreign territories after World War I.
We need to enforce the law.
How do you enforce these regulations?
How are they going to enforce that law?
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The police are there to enforce the law.
1929, Chiang Kai-shek, quoted in “Nationalist Notes,” Time, 11 February, 1929, Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end.
Far from needing to be repealed, the ban on politics in the pulpit ought to be enforced more aggressively.
The victim was able to enforce his evidence against the alleged perpetrator.
I pray you enforce youreselff at that justis that ye may be beste, for my love.
Sweete prince I come, these these thy amorous lines, / Might haue enforst me to haue swum from France, / And like Leander gaspt vpon the sande, / So thou wouldst smile and take me in thy armes.
Uladislaus the Second, King of Poland, and Peter Dunnius, Earl of Shrine[…]had been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.
In a few minutes I was stealthily groping my way down my own staircase, with a box of matches in my hand, enforced by scientific curiosity, but none the less armed with a stick.
to enforce a passage
Ne shame he thought to shonne so hideous might, / The ydle stroke, enforcing furious way, / Missing the marke of his misaymed sight / Did fall to ground […]
Auster and Aquilon with winged Steeds All ſweating, tilt about the watery heauens, With ſhiuering ſpeares enforcing thunderclaps, And from their ſhields ſtrike flames of lightening
If they’ll do neither, we will come to them, / And make them skirr away, as swift as stones / Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:
to enforce arguments or requests
[T]he eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stings that have penetrated more than skin-deep into my mind […]
In this point charge him home, that he affects / Tyrannical power: if he evade us there, / Enforce him with his envy to the people, / And that the spoil got on the Antiates / Was ne’er distributed.
But what argument are ye able to shew, whereby it was euer prooued by Caluin, that any one sentence of Scripture doth necessarily enforce these things, or the rest wherein your opinion concurreth with his against the orders of your owne Church?
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