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enforce English

Meaning enforce meaning

What does enforce mean?
Definitions in simple English

enforce Verb

— To enforce means to make sure that something will be made into effect and followed. The police enforce the law.

enforce

— verb (= apply) ensure observance of laws and rules Apply the rules to everyone — verb (= impose) compel to behave in a certain way Social relations impose courtesy

Synonyms enforce synonyms

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compel force impose implement oblige carry out press make institute coerce apply inflict impel enforcement enact drive compulsory accomplish wreak urge train take effect strengthen sandbag round up reduce put into practice put in force promulgate pressurise peremptory pass obligate necessitate levy lean on introduce intimidate inspire insist implementation hale give force to give effect to get by force forcibly fine exercise execute excert pressure

Topics enforce topics

What do people use enforce to talk about?
Social behavior

Law
Social behavior Government Government functions

Police

Conjugation enforce conjugation

How do you conjugate enforce?

enforce · verb

Examples enforce examples

How do I use enforce in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The laws were very difficult to enforce.
Those who enforce the law must obey the law.
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.
I don't make the rules. I just enforce them.
Churches enforce a strict dress code.

Movie subtitles

They can't enforce laws that don't exist.
I have been imported from Switzerland by the management of this hotel to enforce discipline and I will.
But the others are able to enforce peace.
Do you honestly think you alone can enforce eternal peace?
Well, we gotta enforce the law, don't we?
Listen, men, you fellas put me in this office to enforce the law.
And I'm going to enforce it.
They'll enforce that law.
No? Doesn't your order enforce holy poverty?
Now, you solemnly swear to uphold and enforce the law.
The law's the law, and I demand that you soldier boys enforce it.
My husband and I never touch alcohol, but we see no reason, on that account to enforce our views on our guests.
Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves, and hired policemen to enforce them.
Then I'll get a Deputy Marshal to enforce it.
It is with deep regret that I have to enforce the law of our kingdom.
Listen, men. You put me in this office to enforce the law. I'm going to enforce it.
You only make the rules. I have to enforce them.
Maybe it's the way you enforce them.
You do swear that you will uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution that you will faithfully discharge your duties as federal marshal and that you will at all times serve and enforce the law, so help you God?
And who will enforce the laws?
We just enforce 'em.
You want us to enforce them?
Enforce?
I will enforce your face into my ass!
Would you enforce me to a world of cares? - Call them again.
In any free country, a policeman is supposed to enforce the law. And the law protects the guilty, as well as the innocent.
The time, the place, the torture o, enforce it.
I don't see how you're going to enforce them, but what are they?
That this century's greatest musician was killed on his doorstep, one evening, by an occupying military like that, to enforce the curfew, always seemed strangely under-noticed.
Now, do I have to call the security guards to enforce it?
You can't enforce the law and be charitable too.
Then the Space Corps started to enforce law and order.

News and current affairs

But the US has argued that arms-control measures banning offensive capabilities could weaken defenses against attacks and would be impossible to verify or enforce.
Ireland owes much of this turnaround to its efficient export sector, whose supporters were able to enforce a political U-turn.
We must write and enforce laws that restore credibility to our financial markets.
By the end of 1999, divergence was complete: the United States and Britain were employing their air power to enforce the no-fly zones while France joined Russia and China in abstaining on resolution 1284.
Some military experts may say that Syria's air-defense systems are too sophisticated to suppress, making a no-fly zone too dangerous to enforce.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
Moreover, it is hard to see how anyone - even the IMF, as the US proposal envisions - could enforce caps on trade surpluses.
Only the Security Council can enforce an international tribunal's judgment on a noncompliant state.
Finally, most people are incredulous that economists could be so audacious as to enforce one view of economics.
Instead of punitive measures to enforce such standards, poor countries ought to be given incentives, such as tariff relief, to comply.
The state's role is to protect, enforce, and regulate these contracts and related property rights, as well as to intervene to prevent systemic failure.
All that governments needed to do to ensure the division of labor was to enforce property rights, keep the peace, and collect a few taxes to pay for a limited range of public goods.
The three new agencies will not only enforce common technical standards, which may eventually become binding throughout the EU if endorsed by the European Commission, but will also be allowed to settle disputes between national supervisors.
Indeed, under the European Treaties, the Union has no competence to enact legislation and policy in these domains, nor powers to enforce them.
For example, India could enforce a ceiling on wedding expenditure - typically a father's biggest expense associated with his daughter.
Yes, the IMF ought to develop a voluntary code of conduct for SWF's, but it should not be used as a weapon to enforce financial protectionism.
That September, concerns about public debt and the British government's ability to enforce austerity led to a run on the pound.
Unfortunately, the IMF cannot enforce its guidelines, because currency manipulators are able to stall action.
In May 2010, the European leaders decided that they could not enforce reform in Greece on their own, and called in the International Monetary Fund less as a financial resource than as a disciplining mechanism.
In contrast to the United States, the EU cannot send its marshals to enforce its pacts or collect debt.
In other words, China does not have the capability to rout any rival militarily, let alone enforce its will on Asia.
Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.
Chechnya could be granted the status of a special presidential area throughout any negotiations - indeed, until local Chechen authorities establish their ability to enforce the rule of law.
There is also a growing clamor in the EU to enforce the correct labeling of products made in Israel's West Bank settlements.
Governments can, of course, enforce public-sector wage cuts.

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