Thesaurus / enforce
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Consequently the Chinese (or Ming) emperor sent a large army to enforce his demand for the amount of money due him.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEOr at least he would merely have expressed his wish that I should take the name, without going so far as to enforce it.
FIRST PLAYSA. A. MILNEThe old dog stuck to her like a burr, and she had not the heart to take up a stick to enforce obedience.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEHis duties were to enforce the continental system and to keep a stern eye on Prussia.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONIf he can get anything, he cannot claim it under his contract for he has broken it and therefore a court could not enforce it.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESThis is a salutary rule of the law, which the courts everywhere do not hesitate to enforce.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESThe improvement of land by the purchaser under an oral contract is an act which enables him to enforce the contract in equity.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESThis, Williston says, is an arbitrary refusal of the court to enforce the contract that the parties made and seems unwarranted.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESThese are the general duties which the sacred writings of the Hindoos enforce, without exception, upon all castes or sects.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERAbout nine o'clock one black ball was run up to the fore of the Agamemnon and a gun was fired to enforce attention to the signal.
THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEAWILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELLWORDS RELATED TO ENFORCE
- achieve
- actualize
- actuate
- begin
- bring about
- bring off
- bring on
- buy
- carry through
- cause
- complete
- conceive
- conclude
- consummate
- create
- do a number
- do one's thing
- do the job
- do the trick
- do to a T
- draw on
- effectuate
- enact
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- follow through
- fulfill
- generate
- get across
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- invoke
- make
- make it
- make waves
- perform
- procure
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- pull it off
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- realize
- render
- secure
- sell
- turn out
- turn the trick
- unzip
- yield
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- act
- administer
- administrate
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- cause
- come through
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- deal with
- discharge
- do
- do the job
- do the trick
- do to a T
- earn wings
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- finish
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- sail through
- score
- take care of
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- scores
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- transacts
- apply
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- bind
- blackmail
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- burden
- cause
- charge
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- constrain
- contract
- demand
- draft
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- drive
- enforce
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- fix
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- impress
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- insist
- limit
- make
- move
- necessitate
- oblige
- obtrude
- occasion
- order
- overcome
- pin down
- press
- pressure
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- put screws to
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- require
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- sandbag
- shotgun
- strong-arm
- urge
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- lade
- lay
- lay down
- lay down the law
- levy
- move in on
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- ordain
- order
- place
- prescribe
- presume
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- put
- put foot down
- read riot act
- require
- saddle
- take advantage
- trespass
- visit
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- awe
- be conspicuous
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- buffalo
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- carry
- electrify
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- enthuse
- excite
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- galvanize
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- grandstand
- inspire
- kill
- knock out
- make a hit
- make an impression
- make splash
- move
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- provoke
- push around
- register
- score
- show off
- slay
- stimulate
- stir
- strike
- sway
- thrill
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- affects
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- buffalos
- bulldozes
- carries
- electrifies
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- excites
- fazes
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- gets
- grabs
- grandstands
- inspires
- is conspicuous
- kills
- knocks out
- makes a hit
- makes an impression
- makes splash
- moves
- overawes
- piques
- provokes
- pushes around
- registers
- scores
- shows off
- slays
- stimulates
- stirs
- strikes
- sways
- thrills
- touches
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