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[en-fawrs, -fohrs] / ɛnˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs /


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Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, in his latest message, has insisted security forces are not under orders to "confront high-school students", only to enforce the law.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The commitments run for five years, and the court will have the power to enforce them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Nvidia said the platform included a watchdog that can quarantine agents that attempt to move outside their boundaries in milliseconds, as well as software to enforce what agents can see, do, and interact with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

However, in that same video, Mamdani acknowledged that the city did not have the authority to enforce the warrant, instead calling on the federal government to act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The officers couldn’t really enforce a block without authorization.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

“My Office enforces the law without fear or favor,” Santa Clara Dist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Boland said Ofcom, which enforces the OSA, should be encouraged use it to "crack down on irresponsible online platforms that leave consumers wide open to fraud".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 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

The supreme love does not absorb, but chastens and enforces, all subordinate affections.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

The law can be "enforced against any provider, starting from the testing phase, if they experience a loss of control that affects the EU's internal market," including cyberattacks and biological or chemical misuse, Regnier said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

But all of this is uncharted territory for Congress, as Briffault explained: “The problem is, the laws have never been significantly enforced because they’ve never been violated in such an egregious way,” he said.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

The surrounding development, which broke ground in 1964, includes about 2,200 homes and lots on roughly 7,000 acres, all subject to strict design standards enforced by the Sea Ranch Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The practice has operated for decades in a legal gray area: technically barred under FDA rules, importers say it is rarely enforced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Inmates appreciate a constant set of keepers, he explained; they don’t like having the rules enforced differently every day.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Horvath cited recent Los Angeles Times reporting on the challenges victims face when obtaining and enforcing restraining orders as an inspiration for the Board of Supervisors motion, which was co-authored by board chair Hilda Solis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that a commission enforcing a state antidiscrimination law had violated Phillips’s religious rights by displaying hostility toward his beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Consider the fact that an HOA is responsible for enforcing landscaping requirements, such as making sure homeowners have trimmed their grass.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Describing the "major challenges" with enforcing the Act, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme two penalties had so far been issued to companies but no fines had yet been paid.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman




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