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How to use the word enforces in a Sentence?

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Whoever enforces equality itself brings inequality.”

Zaman Ali

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1 year ago

I think it could be laziness or the belief that rules don't apply, but if you look at when The SEC enforces late filing, The SEC's relatively rare. From a cost-benefit basis, it makes sense not to file. Even if the cost for reporting late is a $ 100,000 fine or a multi-million-dollar fine, why wouldn't he [ delay filing ] ?

Daniel Taylor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The EU is keen to be able to keep escalating The EU response according to developments in Ukraine, if Brussels now enforces maximum sanctions, how does it react to a further escalation by Moscow ?

Henning Gloystein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are huge biases in the fossil record due to a number of factors (mainly geographical and economical, but also more personal biases like palaeontologists focusing on looking for one species for example, like Tyrannosaurus), the fact that multiple groups of scientists working on the exact same question at the same time can come up with completely opposite results further enforces this, that there is a great need for further data collection, i.e. digging up more dinosaurs and finding out where they lived and how successful they truly were.

Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The last Democratic administration went on a regulatory rampage to slow or stop energy production, i’m not going to sit idly by ... while the Biden administration enforces policies that threaten Wyoming’s economy and the life bloods of so many people in my state.

John Barrasso

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This rule enforces longstanding law requiring aliens to be self-sufficient, reaffirming the American ideals of hard work, perseverance and determination.

Ken Cuccinelli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At least this enforces our belief that there is potentially a further upgrade next year by Fitch and Moody's, should the current account balance improve, inflation remain below 3.5 percent and tax revenues be sustained.

Handy Yunianto

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While I am Attorney General, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. I demand the highest standards, and where Donald Trump are not met, I take action. However, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of law enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the United States, i took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in, which is why we have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President's agenda -- one that protects the safety and security and rights of the American people, reduces violent crime, enforces our immigration laws, promotes economic growth, and advances religious liberty.

Attorney General

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are enforcing the laws passed by Congress, and we are doing all that we can in the executive branch to protect our communities. It is now time that Congress act to fix our broken immigration system, surely it is the beginning of the unraveling of democracy when the body who makes the laws, rather than changing them, asks the body who enforces the laws not to enforce the laws. That can not be the answer.

Kirstjen Nielsen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Maybe Delaware law under-enforces the conduct of bankers.

Joel Friedlander

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are many rules, but no one enforces them, nobody checks, there is a lack of education, a weakness of government. But I can't blame anyone this was a natural disaster, nobody ever wanted to see it happen.

Navraj Bhatta

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You can’t have a large health insurance without a law that enforces (it)... Who knows, the next government may say, ‘Oh, let’s not do ARVs any more,’.

Promboon Panitchpakdi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

added by anonymous
10 years ago

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Ursula K. Le Guin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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