as in to implement
to carry out effectively
the duty of the police is to enforce the law
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Once your eye alights on specific motifs, further refusal is enforced by not being able to take in an entire work at once because of its expansiveness.
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Reclassifying the crime allows the courts to enforce stricter penalties and longer sentences.
—Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
On December 31, 2024, the Department of Justice filed an application with the nation's highest court (☆) to put the brakes on the nationwide preliminary injunction that had barred the government from enforcing beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the CTA was likely unconstitutional and imposed a nationwide preliminary injunction barring FinCEN from enforcing it while the government's appeal winds its way through the court system.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Reclassifying the crime allows the courts to enforce stricter penalties and longer sentences.
—Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
On December 31, 2024, the Department of Justice filed an application with the nation's highest court (☆) to put the brakes on the nationwide preliminary injunction that had barred the government from enforcing beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Earlier this month, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the CTA was likely unconstitutional and imposed a nationwide preliminary injunction barring FinCEN from enforcing it while the government's appeal winds its way through the court system.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Enforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforce. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.
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