enforce
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They feel intervention from authorities would have taken the pressure off Stacy to enforce a separation - and been helpful for the family, while they made difficult decisions about how best to support her.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Nor does it impinge on the States’ authority ‘to create and enforce a legal code’ for elections.’”
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Gee made a similar move to enforce the settlement in response to the president’s controversial first-term family separation policy and widespread public outcry over the treatment of children in immigration detention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The fact that AI-generated text can’t be copyrighted has made it one of the hard lines the industry has been able to enforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
There had been a ban on such marriages, and a district judge had issued an injunction not to enforce it, but a stay had been placed on that injunction.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Then it hacked the module that enforces blind obedience and embarked on a long journey to becoming human, with a full set of emotions spanning love, grief and . . . just kidding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
For more than a decade, aircraft entering Yemeni airspace have needed prior clearance from the Saudi-led coalition that backs the government and says it enforces the restriction at its request.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Paxton cannot claim ignorance of the law because he enforces it, said Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
U.S. law generally enforces a quiet period for 40 days after the IPO during which time the company and any of the underwriters are prohibited from any communications on the stock.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
The automobile enforces the same abstinence upon the people that the railroads require of engineers.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
But with an enforced break through injury and then lower minutes at the World Cup, he could be about to produce the regular scintillating performances we have become used to.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The rules will be enforced by Cal Fire in State Responsibility Areas, and by local fire authorities, such as city or county fire departments, in local responsibility areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The FCC has loosely enforced the rule in recent decades and in 2002 gave “The View” an exemption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Inevitably, though, order would be enforced, and Piker would once again be painted as the enemy.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
While the restrictions were aggressively enforced in the South, they were also common in the Midwest and West.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Wetherspoons told the BBC that staff would be asked to use "common sense" when enforcing the ban.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the case of the FTC and FCC, we will have issues enforcing competitive rules and licensing for different broadcast stations.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
When the City Council initially declined to pass tough anti-corruption laws, voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition H to create an independent watchdog tasked with enforcing a tough new set of regulations governing city officials’ conduct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, a Democrat, is aggressively enforcing the statute against recalcitrant communities in the state.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The total ban on life-without-parole sentences for children convicted of non-homicides should have been the easiest decision to implement, but enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling was proving much more difficult than I had hoped.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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