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enforcement

[ en-fawrs-muhnt, -fohrs- ]

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noun

1425–75; late Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French. See enforce, -ment

A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

You see, there is another Mexico, one that is not so appealing to business but well known to law enforcement.

They prevailed last August, obtaining—follow me here—an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of those provisions.

Law-enforcement agencies at all levels of government provide a valuable and often thankless public service in their communities.

He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.

It had a fortification such as became usual in later bridges for defence or for the enforcement of tolls.

The Board of Trade insisted upon the rigorous enforcement of the navigation act.

Having but one man—the responsible manager—to deal with, protective legislation and its enforcement would be a very simple matter.

And yet to the moderately philosophic observer the making of the law and its enforcement belong to the same process.

The National Forest force is seeking merely to obtain a strict enforcement of existing laws.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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