verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enforce a ban (=make sure that it is obeyed)
▪ New measures must be taken to enforce the ban on guns and knives.
enforce a law (=make people obey a law)
▪ It is the job of the police to enforce the law.
enforce a rule (=make sure that it is obeyed)
▪ The planning office does not always enforce its own rules.
enforce discipline (=make people obey the rules, especially by using punishment)
▪ It is entirely for your own good that we enforce discipline.
enforce sanctions (=make sure they are obeyed)
▪ The UN will have the job of enforcing the sanctions.
enforced exile (=when someone is forced to go into exile)
▪ After 12 years of enforced exile abroad, Almeyda returned home to Salvador.
ensure/secure/enforce compliance
▪ The staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
strictly enforced
▪ The ban on hunting is not strictly enforced.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strictly
▪ Space on the ground in the narrow paddock is limited by strictly enforced rules.
▪ But a return to a strictly enforced standard becomes more and more difficult as the gap between generations widens.
▪ Now that the war is almost over, Moscow's information embargo is less strictly enforced.
▪ A legal ban on the hunting of wildlife is not strictly enforced.
▪ Even headmen not in league with cattle thieves had little interest in strictly enforcing the regulations.
■ NOUN
act
▪ The federal government worked vigorously to enforce the new act and to suppress attempted violations.
▪ The courts recognize and will enforce only acts of Parliament.
▪ They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
action
▪ The wife brought an action to enforce the revised agreement and the husband argued that the agreement was unsupported by consideration.
agency
▪ Their unsuccessful efforts included a move to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing provisions of environmental laws now on the books.
agreement
▪ The wife brought an action to enforce the revised agreement and the husband argued that the agreement was unsupported by consideration.
▪ Though uniform standards will not be enforced, the agreement calls for joint monitoring of pollution.
▪ However, Rees also notes that collusion requires a mechanism to enforce agreements.
▪ The franchiser tried to keep the spat out of court by enforcing an arbitration agreement in the franchise contract.
▪ If the trader fails to comply with these requirements, he is not allowed to enforce the agreement against the customer.
▪ An action was then brought to enforce the costs agreement.
▪ Close-knit communities have ways of enforcing such agreements.
attempt
▪ Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
▪ No confrontation occurred because no attempt was made to enforce the law.
▪ The government offered no special finance for public works, and made no attempt to enforce implementation.
authority
▪ Outside, the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew.
▪ They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
▪ Nevertheless, local authorities may enforce the law as it stands.
▪ Congress had passed these two sections to give the president authority to enforce federal law without a state request.
▪ This is not enough to show that anyone can have authority to introduce or enforce such a scheme.
▪ He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands.
ban
▪ The militants enforced the ban on cheating in school exams, and even that old tradition disappeared.
▪ Wednesday afternoon, riot police were out on the streets of Belgrade to enforce a ban on marches by anti-Milosevic demonstrators.
▪ And there's some doubt as to whether the council can make its tenant farmers enforce the ban.
charge
▪ A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge.
▪ The son failed to repay the loan and the finance company sought to enforce the charge.
code
▪ But unease continues over the powers it will have to enforce its code.
▪ Some superiors were more zealous than others to enforce the disciplinary code.
▪ The county would also enforce its outdoor lighting code, Huckelberry told the residents.
contract
▪ Such a person can enforce the contract against the other party but can not generally himself be sued.
▪ The law lends its weight to uphold and enforce contracts freely entered into.
▪ They or their heirs can enforce this contract against one another for the whole period.
▪ The statutory assignment has the advantage of enabling the purchaser to enforce the contracts directly against the supplier rather than through the vendor.
▪ Riche brought an action against the company seeking to enforce the contract.
control
▪ We will enforce effective pollution control regulations while helping farmers to meet the high standards required.
court
▪ Whenever the courts enforce a promise on the ground that another has relied upon it, a transfer of wealth occurs.
▪ The franchiser tried to keep the spat out of court by enforcing an arbitration agreement in the franchise contract.
▪ But it was the duty of the courts to enforce the laws made by Parliament.
▪ They created a system of elected building captains and court captains to enforce them.
▪ The decision in 1949 to establish a court to enforce and interpret the Constitution was a historical act of revenge on Bismarck.
▪ Apparently, he now believed that court orders could be enforced with troops, which he had denied during the Meredith incident.
▪ Second, non-compliance with regulatory rules may be a ground upon which the court will refuse to enforce a stipulation of confidence.
▪ The courts recognize and will enforce only acts of Parliament.
covenant
▪ Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel.
decision
▪ And one who has the power to enforce his decisions, if need be, with armed might!
▪ That is, only the state has the right to use violence to enforce the laws and decisions of the society.
▪ They certainly exercised this power, but their ability to enforce their decisions appeared to be weak.
▪ Thus strong powers are needed by the centre to enforce decisions.
duty
▪ This raises the possibility of an employee with a shareholding being allowed to enforce the section 309 duty derivatively.
▪ It manipulates the environment, and it is able to enforce moral duties on those who are inclined to disregard them.
▪ There is therefore the broadest possible political consensus behind the pressures to enforce such a duty to disarm.
effort
▪ Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting.
▪ Southerners struck back against such efforts to enforce equality.
▪ As in post-Pearl Harbour U.S.A., a meatless day each week was decreed, but little effort made to enforce it.
government
▪ Most existing international agreements depend on governments to enforce rules on companies.
▪ Shell argues that rather than introducing new requirements of dubious value, governments should enforce existing regulations to force sub-standard ships out of business.
▪ The federal government worked vigorously to enforce the new act and to suppress attempted violations.
▪ Should not the Government enforce the statutory responsibilities of local authorities?
▪ Obviously the effectiveness of these proposals depends on how the government chooses to enforce the regulations.
▪ The government will start to enforce the insurance regulation as of today.
judgment
▪ If he does not, the successful plaintiff can enforce the judgment by causing a writ of execution to be issued.
▪ A party entitled to enforce the judgment or order may apply on affidavit to issue the necessary process.
▪ Ultimately it may well fall to the authorities of State B to enforce the judgment against Secundus and his assets.
law
▪ Certain norms are formalized by translation into laws which are enforced by official sanctions.
▪ They contend that the commissioner is required by law to enforce the anti-redlining regulation, regardless of personal preference.
▪ Though the laws were rarely enforced, the Cayman Islands turned away a cruise liner chartered by 1,000 gay men in 1999.
▪ Criminal syndicalist laws were enforced and resulted in the jailing of political activists.
▪ Though not all laws are enforced with equal vigour, criminal law defines crime as it is officially recognized.
▪ Lottery sales to juveniles are illegal, but laws are often not enforced.
▪ The administration of law and order may enforce another definition of crime which is different from the legal definition.
▪ Others think speed laws should be better enforced.
legislation
▪ Those who anticipate that both will be granted will campaign for legislation to enforce a new schedule of environmental safeguards.
▪ But the report fails to live up to expectations in looking at how new legislation will be enforced.
▪ To provide advice and guidance to businesses to enable them to comply with the requirements of the legislation enforced.
limit
▪ Judicial review can be used to enforce those statutory limits.
▪ Other approaches include limiting vehicle horsepower, placing warning signs to mark hazards and enforcing speed limits.
▪ In built-up areas, for example, special slow-reacting catalytic surfaces will automatically enforce the speed limit.
means
▪ This contradicts the spirit of the supplementary benefit regulations and suggests that the means test is being enforced with new vigour.
▪ The committal order was for failing to attend court for examination of his means in proceedings to enforce judgement debts against him.
▪ There are currently no statutory means to enforce their protection.
order
▪ A party entitled to enforce the judgment or order may apply on affidavit to issue the necessary process.
▪ Whipped by bad fortune, surrendering to the inexorable gravity of downward-sliding consequences, Edna enforced home order without compromise.
▪ The Board, for example, had no power to enforce its own orders.
▪ As segregation and violence became commonplace, the national government expressed no willingness to enforce a new racial order.
▪ The government was bitterly denounced for the emergency measures it was taking to enforce order.
▪ Modern selfhood is created and regulated by institutions, child-rearing, and ongoing socialization that enforce the modern order.
party
▪ A party entitled to enforce the judgment or order may apply on affidavit to issue the necessary process.
peace
▪ This was solved by the nuclear genes enforcing their preference for peace through unilateral disarmament.
police
▪ It implies that the police fully enforces every law against the citizen.
▪ Although there are standards, no Internet police exists to enforce them.
▪ There has been an historical reluctance on the part of the police to enforce the section, which is perhaps to be regretted.
▪ Brown said it was never his intention to stop police from enforcing the laws.
▪ Why do the police not enforce the law?
policy
▪ And enforcing his policies is only part of the problem.
power
▪ And one who has the power to enforce his decisions, if need be, with armed might!
▪ The Board, for example, had no power to enforce its own orders.
▪ Respondents identified a number of procedural deficiencies in the Act which was said to lack sufficient powers to enforce compliance.
▪ The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this Article.
▪ The courts may recognize them, but the courts have no power to enforce them.
▪ Ultimately, the force of the constitution depends upon the will of those with political power to enforce its provisions.
▪ But remember, codes have no legal status and they are only as good as the organisation's power to enforce them.
▪ This spelled the end of the Brezhnev doctrine, under which Soviet military power enforced the loyalty of its peripheral satellite states.
regulation
▪ There were difficulties enforcing regulations at the Colombo slaughterhouse.
▪ It is even harder to enforce the regulations.
▪ The Government hopes it will help councils enforce hygiene regulations.
▪ They contend that the commissioner is required by law to enforce the anti-redlining regulation, regardless of personal preference.
▪ Shell argues that rather than introducing new requirements of dubious value, governments should enforce existing regulations to force sub-standard ships out of business.
▪ It should have enforced its post-1986 regulations more effectively.
▪ Every precaution will be taken to enforce regulations, traceability and labelling.
▪ The work of regulatory agencies was also undermined by budget cuts and a concerted unwillingness to enforce existing regulations.
requirement
▪ The applicant sought judicial review of the Director's decision to seek to enforce compliance with the requirements of the notice.
▪ How am I going to encourage and, if it becomes necessary, enforce these requirements and rules?
right
▪ In the new Parliament, we will legislate to enforce and enhance these rights.
▪ Employees are scared to enforce their rights because if they did they would be unfairly dismissed.
rule
▪ But it is one thing to have rules, another to enforce them.
▪ In the meantime it is sufficient to note that the position where the rules are barely enforced at all is far from satisfactory.
▪ Compliance with these rules will be enforced by the appropriate authorities in each member state.
security
▪ In due course the bank sought to enforce its security.
standard
▪ If states failed to set or enforce standards, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare could intervene.
▪ Because Apple refused to license its technology to clone makers, it could enforce hardware and software standards.
▪ Paul who were supposedly too earthly in their pastoral concerns and too lenient in enforcing doctrine and liturgical standards.
▪ But a return to a strictly enforced standard becomes more and more difficult as the gap between generations widens.
▪ Because all the control lay with a central bureaucracy-the local housing authority-residents were powerless to enforce standards of behavior or evict criminals.
▪ Communities enforce standards of behavior more effectively than bureaucracies or service professionals.
state
▪ Just as thirty years before, here again were feminist divisions over using the repressive state to enforce women's demands.
▪ Jeff Groscost actually wanted the Legislature to determine whether a species was truly endangered before the state enforced federal protections.
▪ Ultimately it may well fall to the authorities of State B to enforce the judgment against Secundus and his assets.
▪ Because the state tried to enforce a monopoly on ideas, intellectuals were both at great risk and terrifically influential.
▪ The growth of constitutionalism raised the problem of how the limitations imposed on the state were to be enforced.
▪ Kids have to spend more time driving with an adult in the car, but how will the state enforce it?
▪ Is it unreasonable that it should also be empowered to decide on the judgment of a state tribunal enforcing such unconstitutional law?
▪ They wanted state authorities to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act to avoid establishing new precedents for national intervention in state affairs.
zone
▪ Military experts think more than 50 fighter jets would be needed to enforce the zone.
▪ S.-enforced no-fly zone.
▪ However, those ships can not enforce the no-fly zone.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Outside, the military authorities began enforcing an undeclared night-time curfew.
continue
▪ If so, do we need our ethical and legal rules to continue to respect and enforce this distinction?
fail
▪ All have failed so far to enforce that deadline.
help
▪ The Government hopes it will help councils enforce hygiene regulations.
▪ The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
require
▪ However, Rees also notes that collusion requires a mechanism to enforce agreements.
▪ They contend that the commissioner is required by law to enforce the anti-redlining regulation, regardless of personal preference.
▪ Another would be a regulation that requires banks to enforce a 30-day waiting period for withdrawals of pass-book deposits.
seek
▪ The applicant sought judicial review of the Director's decision to seek to enforce compliance with the requirements of the notice.
▪ Riche brought an action against the company seeking to enforce the contract.
try
▪ After years of trying to enforce a regular bedtime, Katherine and Gary had just given up.
▪ Because the state tried to enforce a monopoly on ideas, intellectuals were both at great risk and terrifically influential.
▪ The management has given up trying to enforce proper movie-watching behavior.
▪ Family decorum is usually not well served by trying to enforce a multitude of rules and complicated procedures.
use
▪ Judicial review can be used to enforce those statutory limits.
▪ That is, only the state has the right to use violence to enforce the laws and decisions of the society.
▪ Now he is using his status to enforce a new brand of elitism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a period of enforced silence
▪ It's difficult to enforce discipline in these surroundings.
▪ The police are strict here about enforcing the speed limit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But after 18 months of enforced dormancy, both have been given new life and relevance.
▪ But he is not entitled to go behind the Act to show that section 18 should not be enforced.
▪ But it is one thing to have rules, another to enforce them.
▪ Long periods of enforced coexistence may include concessions or agreements and important, often fruitful, cultural exchange.
▪ The franchiser tried to keep the spat out of court by enforcing an arbitration agreement in the franchise contract.
▪ The office does a poor job enforcing the cases it has now, she said.
▪ The only answer to this is to develop a comprehensive programme of accounting standards and to enforce them vigorously.
▪ They are willing to explain but not to enforce.