enforce
verb (used with object), en·forced, en·forc·ing.
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prosecute, accomplish, invoke, require, impose, administer, reinforce, sanction, apply, implement, exert, wrest, commandeer, necessitate, coerce, fortify, expect, dictate, hound, whipExamples from the Web for enforce
Contemporary Examples of enforce
Obviously, the first obligation of all liberal democratic governments is to enforce the rule of law.
At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
“Given the number of events which take place across the UK it is likely to be difficult to enforce,” said Rupert Sutton.
People often forget that the National Panhellenic council used to enforce racial segregation by means of strict codes and laws.
So the CIW has looked to the marketplace to enforce these guarantees.
Historical Examples of enforce
I have been selected by you to execute and enforce the laws of the country.
Accordingly orders were given to enforce the Navigation Act.
The Life of Horatio Lord NelsonRobert Southey
This is the proposition which I intended to enforce in the present section.
All that has been said, then, tends to enforce the culture of the imagination.
A Dish Of OrtsGeorge MacDonald
They might enforce on them a total abolition of inheritance and bequest.'
Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense MetaphysicsWilliam Thomas Thornton