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Example sentences for "enforce"

Lexicographically close words:
enflamed; enfold; enfolded; enfolding; enfolds; enforceable; enforced; enforcement; enforcements; enforces
  1. Along with the establishment of the new United Nations’ system and steps to enforce its sanctions, a second major breakthrough occurred.

  2. It is due to me," said the Pilot, who now stepped forward among the agitated group, "and it is time that I enforce it.

  3. His mandates were, therefore, issued with a full perception of the critical nature of the emergency, but with that collectedness of manner, and intonation of voice, that were best adapted to enforce a ready and animated obedience.

  4. To enforce the rules laid down for preserving order and fair play among the combatants was not an easy or a popular task.

  5. Bohusland was subdued, Bleking likewise on another side, and Gustavus sought, both by negotiation and arms, to enforce the old claims of Sweden to Scania and Halland.

  6. Her emotion, an inexpressible charm which seemed to flow from her lips and to enforce conviction, made me shed tears of love and sympathy.

  7. But it was also his care to enforce upon his countrymen the lesson of maintaining their existing empire unimpaired, and shrinking from no effort requisite for that end.

  8. Thirty triremes under Theramenês, were left at Chrysopolis to enforce this levy, to convoy friendly merchantmen, and in other respects to serve as annoyance to the enemy.

  9. Granting such charges to be true, how is it conceivable that any sophist, or any rhetor, could venture to enforce upon an Athenian public audience the doctrine laid down by Kalliklês?

  10. The senators were no way prepared to resist the decree just passed under the forms of legality with an armed body now arrived to enforce its execution.

  11. The Secretary of the Treasury has authorized the employment of additional officers, who will be assigned to this duty, and every effort will be made to enforce the law.

  12. 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.

  13. No choice is left to me but to enforce with vigor all laws intended to secure to the citizen his constitutional rights and to recommend that the inadequacies of such laws be promptly remedied.

  14. United States will be required to strictly enforce the provision of the act of Congress to the above effect.

  15. The general support of the efforts of the Executive to enforce the just rights of the nation in this matter has given an instructive and useful illustration of the unity and patriotism of our people.

  16. The last lit de justice in France, assembled at Versailles, by Louis XVI, to enforce upon the parliament of Paris the adoption of the obnoxious taxes proposed by Calonne.

  17. During the debate on this measure the great Burke threw upon the floor a Sheffield dagger to enforce his oratory.

  18. In order to enforce an ordinance of Cromwell, Capt.

  19. Hence it is the art of an instrument-maker to so construct the instrument as to develop and re-enforce such tones as are pleasing, and to suppress the interfering and disagreeable overtones.

  20. Sometimes it is said that, if a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example.

  21. These are the relatively few in which equity will grant an injunction, and will enforce it by putting the defendant in prison or otherwise punishing him unless he complies with the order of the court.

  22. Our bishops have not only the power, but the will, to enforce such matters of discipline as they deem necessary.

  23. It is bound to protect and enforce Christian morals and its laws, whether assailed by Mormonism, Spiritism, Freelovism, Pantheism, or Atheism.

  24. He then proceeded to enforce upon his bigoted hearer the only Gospel sermon which he had ever heard; and Brother Woodside was the very man to utter it!

  25. On December 4 in his annual message he called the attention of Congress to the opposition to the revenue laws and intimated that he should enforce them.

  26. If an advocate could grasp a principle which appealed to consciousness, and enforce it with native eloquence, he was more likely to succeed than one versed in learned precedents without energy or plausible utterances.

  27. It was not their present intention to lead the men from their homes, but they wished to prepare them to receive the republican troops, when they came into the country to enforce the collection of the republican levy.

  28. The State evidently has rights over its citizens, and may enforce these rights through the infliction of punishment.

  29. Thus the will of the community, expressed in custom, determines what the members of the community ought to do, and it takes measures to enforce obedience to its decisions.

  30. It may be questioned whether either our desire to deter men from crime, or our benevolent interest in the criminal, would be quite sufficient to enforce law, if all sense of resentment against the law-breaker were lacking.

  31. Those public habits which it seems to a community it is of especial importance to preserve and enforce come to be embodied in laws.

  32. God never yet commissioned a human being to beg for him, and the person who uses the divine name to enforce his demand is little better than a thief.

  33. The poor beggar has only himself to enforce his appeal, and often he is an injury to his own cause.

  34. America, leaving out of account altogether her military impotence, would need a fleet three times her present strength to enforce the Monroe Doctrine for the remainder--not of this century but of this decade.

  35. Several subsequent editorials enforced these ideas, and were even so definite as to point out Johnston, Longstreet, and Buckner as the commands which were likely to re-enforce Bragg.

  36. They with preposterous grief the world delude, Who mourn for their lost mates in solitude; Since widowhood more strongly doth enforce The much lamented lot of their divorce.

  37. You guide his sword by vote, which as you list 130 Must strike or spare (for so you did enforce His hand against His reason to divorce [Sidenote: The Navy seiz'd Mar.

  38. We've been warned that the troops are instructed to enforce the court's action.

  39. Now, sir, we want you to enforce these orders.

  40. As it is elsewhere, the bag-limit laws on birds are a farce, because it is impossible to enforce them, save on every tenth man.

  41. That a force of regular salaried wardens be provided to enforce the laws.

  42. It is necessary to sound a loud alarm, to present the facts in very strong language, backed up by irrefutable statistics and by photographs which tell no lies, to establish the law and enforce it if needs be with a bludgeon.

  43. Were I a member of a board of education I would seek to establish and enforce this requirement.

  44. Bradley, whose business it was to enforce the state laws protecting the egret rookeries.

  45. We will not "limit the bag, and enforce the laws," while we permit the makers and users of autoloading and pump guns to kill at will, as they demand.

  46. A great many of her people who shoot are desperately lawless and uncontrollable, and the state is not financially able to support a force of wardens sufficiently strong to enforce the laws, even as they are.

  47. It was positively refreshing to the army at this time to have at its head a man who did not know what it was to pander to the socialists, and one who would enforce his solemn oath, "To enforce the laws of the United States," at all hazards.

  48. But on the 2nd Mr. Daviess was again forced to ask a postponement because of the absence of John Adair; though he asked that the grand jury be retained until he could enforce Adair's attendance by attachment.

  49. The scarcity of money also may be immediately relieved, if the love of popular favor would so far give way to the love of public good, as to enforce plentiful taxation.

  50. I present this matter to you, Sir, quite naked of arguments, to enforce the request.

  51. To go no farther, it would hardly be prudent to hazard a dispute with Massachusetts, by relinquishing the requisitions of March, 1780, or with some other States by a useless attempt to enforce them.

  52. If indeed it were my object to enforce this point, I should go no further than the past experience of Congress, and perhaps there might be room for some argument on the actual state of the Office of Foreign Affairs.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enforce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administer; apply; bind; cause; compel; complete; constrain; discharge; dispense; drive; effect; effectuate; enforce; exact; execute; force; fulfill; have; honor; impel; implement; make; observe; police; promulgate; prosecute; render; restrain; tie; transact


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    enforce the; enforce them; enforcements from