enforce

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Further details of the regulatory framework to enforce the ban will be outlined later on Wednesday.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

All of these cuts have put the IRS in “a weaker position to enforce the tax laws against complex businesses and high income people,” DeBot says.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The second line was that banning A.I. would just enforce our actual policies, because A.I. already tends to break rules.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

The First Amendment, he concludes, “stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It deployed smoke inspectors to enforce a new antismoke ordinance.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson