Is it not plain that the enforcing of an obsolete right is the inflicting of a wrong?
It is very well to talk of confronting sedition boldly, and of enforcing the law against those who would disturb the public peace.
Though real efforts were made to carry it out, the chronic weakness of a medieval executive soon recoiled before the hopeless task of enforcing impossible laws on an unwilling population.
Edward cleverly utilised his kinsman's zeal as another lever for enforcing the settlement of outstanding differences.
Loudly declaring that the true cause of the disaster was Edward's neglect to carry out the ordinances, he announced his intention of immediately enforcing their observance.
In the period of peace after the conquest of Scotland, Edward busied himself with strengthening the administration of his own kingdom and with enforcing the laws against violence and outrage.
Effective work has been done in our cities in enforcing the laws, and this work continues.
We are all so busy in setting forth and enforcing the blessings of Christianity in its effects in the present life that, I fear me, we are largely forgetting what it does for us at the end, and beyond the end.
Those who take the opposite view of the law, having in the great majority of cases, nothing to do with enforcing it, are in no measure responsible for it.
It would be a perfect contradiction if the law authorized the purchase and holding of slaves, and yet forbid the enforcing the right of possession.
These citizens were to visit the poor in their dwellings, to apply what relief was necessary, to meet twice a week to concert remedial measures and to have charge of enforcing the laws against begging and idleness.
At the same time the moral reforms of Trent were laxly carried out, for while decrees enforcing them were promulgated by Sixtus with one hand, with the other he sold dispensations and privileges.
His beneficent yet also his terrible arm is ever defending and enforcing it.
The truth has never prospered by enforcing some 'via media.
He represented in the cabinet the views which Lord Stratford was enforcing at Constantinople, and step by step Lord Stratford, thus supported, drove the country nearer and nearer to war.
Simple fractures of the body of the scapula are best treated by placing the subject in a sling, if the animal is halter broken, and enforcing absolute quiet for a period of from three to six weeks.
By gently compressing the parts, pus is caused to drain out and in enforcing a moderate amount of exercise at a walk, when lameness is not intense, drainage is maintained.
The advocate of schemes for the improvement of their rational nature may, it seems, take his ground, his strongest ground, on religion, for enforcing on individuals the duty of promoting such an object.
Unless he found them nearly unanimous in their interpretation and approbation of it, he would conclude that juries would not unite in enforcing it, and that it would consequently be a dead letter.
This presumption of their consent to be taxed for the maintenance of laws, would be absurd, if they could not themselves be trusted to act in good faith in enforcing those laws.
He also declined conveying troops to the South for re-enforcing General Greene, but he consented to remain a few days in Chesapeake Bay, to cover the transportation of the Eastern troops and of the ordnance, to the head of Elk.
Fancy a court for enforcing a contract of passion or sentiment!
But as these are matters of general assent, which nobody dreams of objecting to, so also we have made no provision for enforcing them: therefore I don't call them laws.
He was only obliged to enter into a bond of twenty thousand marks, that he should never again be guilty of rebellion: a strange method of enforcing the laws, and a proof of the dangerous independence of the barons in those ages!
It is true that the king continued his courses, and was resolved on enforcing his measures by violence.
He spoke of the means of enforcing thraldom as inefficient and ridiculous.
The next morning Stanley rode a stage northward with his new friend, and parted from him with great reluctance, upon the remonstrances of Spontoon, who, accustomed to submit to discipline, was rigid in enforcing it.
But most religions have claimed, and do claim, the divine origin and ratification of their laws, as a means of enforcing them.
He says: "Reduced to its lowest terms, every proposal to interfere with citizens' activities further than by enforcing their mutual limitations, is a proposal to improve life by breaking through the fundamental conditions of life.
An authority without the means of enforcing itself is a self-contradiction.
No one ever possessed greater power of enforcing the respect and fastening the affections of men.
If there is anything wrong in the Nauvoo charters, or in the mode of administering them, you will see that nothing short of legislative or judicial power is capable of enforcing a remedy.
Its sentiments are good, but it provides no means ofenforcing them.
China may therefore fairly have a right to expect that in enforcing them we will take good care not to overstep the grant and take more than has been conceded to us.
In reading, as in conduct, each one must bear more and more of their own personal responsibility, and unless the law is within themselves there is no possibility of enforcing it.
I found the eight-hour law a mere farce, the departments rarely enforcing it with any degree of efficiency.
A favorite assertion was that I was enforcing a "blue" law, an obsolete law that had never before been enforced.
As a matter of fact, I was only enforcing honestly a law that had hitherto been enforced dishonestly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enforcing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
