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Example sentences for "enforce the"

  • To enforce the discipline of their soldiers, the Court committed full power to one of their own body, General Witherington.

  • The Union, therefore, required a national judiciary to enforce the obedience of the citizens to the laws, and to repeal the attacks which might be directed against them.

  • This court meets twice a year in the county town; in Massachusetts it is empowered to enforce the obedience of the greater number *s of public officers.

  • Thus to enforce the laws of the Union by means of the tribunals of the States would be to allow not only foreign but partial judges to preside over the nation.

  • William had some advantages to enforce the execution of a bequest which was not included even in any of the modes of succession which then were admitted.

  • The overgrown favorites and wealthy nobility of Rome advanced money to the provincials; and they were in a condition both to prescribe the terms of the loan and to enforce the payment.

  • The colonists were angered by this attempt to enforce the law; and in 1773 took an important step towards union and a future congress by establishing committees of correspondence between the provinces.

  • Bute complained that Frederick was secretly negotiating with Russia for a separate treaty which would hinder a general peace, and thwart our policy in the north by encouraging Russia to enforce the surrender of Schleswig.

  • It was when that fear was removed that England began to enforce the restraints on commerce.

  • The Governor then referred to a case in point that he had submitted to the former Attorney General, but he "did not seem disposed to enforce the rights of the father, on the ground that he had sold the child.

  • Well; can he tell us how Virginia and South Carolina could enforce the Constitution on Vermont in that respect?

  • And if the one ought to be able to enforce the contract, so ought the other.

  • It will not be denied that every nation has a right to regulate its commercial system as it thinks fit and to enforce the collection of its revenue, provided it be done without an invasion of the rights of other powers.

  • It has power to enforce the laws, punish treason, and insure domestic tranquillity.

  • Jefferson declined to obey, and there was no attempt to enforce the subpoena.

  • The writ to enforce the judgment of a court of law is called an execution.

  • Heads of Departments, bureaus, and all other public officers having any duty connected therewith will be expected to enforce the civil-service law fully and without evasion.

  • Severe rules were prescribed to enforce the provisions of these laws, and heavy penalties imposed on all who should violate them.

  • At the opening of the session the President asked Congress for the power to use the land and naval forces if necessary to enforce the laws.

  • But a still stronger motive combined to enforce the first.

  • And to prove this, commissioners were despatched to the more distant provinces, empowered to enforce the execution of the Edict of Amboise.

  • If it is asked why society ought to enforce the right, there is no answer but the general utility.

  • To enforce the laws of nature; (2) To appoint the form &c.

  • He makes a mild use of the sanctions of a Future Life to enforce the laws of Nature, and to give additional support to the commands of the sovereign that take the place of these in the social state.

  • It has a legislative department charged with the making of the laws, an executive department to enforce the laws, and a judicial department to explain and apply the laws.

  • If the same officers could make the law, enforce the law, and explain the law, there would be no limit to their authority, and therefore no security to the people.

  • It is his duty to enforce the provisions of the Pure Food and Drug Laws, and he appoints a food inspector and a drug inspector.

  • They make the law of the family, enforce the law, and explain the law.

  • The weakness of Congress had been fatally revealed in its inability to protect the loyalists or to enforce the payment of debts, and in its failure to raise a revenue for meeting its current expenses.

  • The legislature of South Carolina was honourably distinguished for the good faith with which it endeavoured to enforce the recommendation of Congress; but the people, unable to forget the smoking ruins of plundered homes, were less lenient.

  • On this point also Congress was powerless to enforce the treaty.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enforce the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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