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How to use enforce in a sentence

Consequently the Chinese (or Ming) emperor sent a large army to enforce his demand for the amount of money due him.

Or at least he would merely have expressed his wish that I should take the name, without going so far as to enforce it.

The old dog stuck to her like a burr, and she had not the heart to take up a stick to enforce obedience.

His duties were to enforce the continental system and to keep a stern eye on Prussia.

If he can get anything, he cannot claim it under his contract for he has broken it and therefore a court could not enforce it.

This is a salutary rule of the law, which the courts everywhere do not hesitate to enforce.

The improvement of land by the purchaser under an oral contract is an act which enables him to enforce the contract in equity.

This, Williston says, is an arbitrary refusal of the court to enforce the contract that the parties made and seems unwarranted.

These are the general duties which the sacred writings of the Hindoos enforce, without exception, upon all castes or sects.

About 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.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985