had been enforcing
- past perfect progressive of enforce.
Example Sentences
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Up until now, L.A. had been enforcing some basic rules about where and how people can sell food or goods, but not citing vendors for lacking city permits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
The practical King, anticipating this, had been enforcing the cultivation of the much despised potato; and this useful tuber saved Prussia and Silesia from famine, and some of their neighbors as well.
From A Short History of Germany by Parmele, Mary Platt
Sir Thomas More, as Chancellor, had been enforcing the heresy laws against Luther’s English proselytes with increased severity.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.
But in St. Thomas's time, the Inquisition had been enforcing for some years the draconian laws of Frederic II.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Conway, Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis)
This subject is continued from the xiiith chapter, where the apostle had been enforcing the commandments, and one is equally binding as the other, except the fourth, which is more insisted upon than the rest.
From A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Bates, Joseph
