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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

Isobel's hint that he had been a laggard in love banished, in a moment, the uncongenial prudence which he had been enforcing on himself.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

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

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.