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How to use the word enforcing in a Sentence?

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These bathroom bans hurt students’ academic achievement – and the educators held accountable for students’ success. Discriminatory policies affect more than just grades: LGBTQ+ students who experience discrimination, like being prohibited from using the restroom, report higher levels of depression and lower self-esteem. Enforcing these bills would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming for schools and extraordinarily invasive toward transgender students.

Melanie Willingham-Jaggers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Strengthening and enforcing renter protections is vitally important to addressing the broader housing crisis, there is a tremendous power imbalance in our housing system that tilts heavily in favor of landlords at the expense of low-income and other marginalized renters, putting families at greater risk of housing instability and homelessness and fueling racial inequity.

Diane Yentel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They took an oath of office, though, to enforce the law, when the law goes into effect, where someone is caught with a weapon that isn’t registered, they’ll enforce it. I mean, we have lots of law enforcement in the state of Illinois. Elected sheriffs are just one level of law enforcement. We have local state police, we have state police. Lots of folks who will hold people accountable. But these sheriffs know better. They know that their voters won’t stand for it if they’re not enforcing the law.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Being awake and aware does not automatically change a situation, but enforcing the systems and strategies that will ameliorate the situation is your key to liberation.

Peter Wunador owads

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1 year ago

Being awake and aware does not automatically change a situation, but enforcing the systems and strategies that will ameliorate the situation is your key to liberation.

Peter Wunador owads

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1 year ago

It won't only be what I hear at the state fair, but what I've heard in my county meetings that I hold regularly. Inflation is number one. Some people call it cost of living, saying gas prices. And the fact is, the president is not enforcing law at the border. It just irritates people. You can't come to America without our permission. And we've had 2 million people just willy-nilly cross the border.

Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Ayatollah is fueling Putin’s war machine and plans to contribute to the deaths of countless innocent Ukrainians, instead of enforcing congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran’s drone program, the administration continues to pursue a disastrous nuclear deal with Tehran.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It would be unconstitutional to continue enforcing this provision in state law, there is no impact on other permitting requirements and protocols.

Maryland Gov. Hogan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Reinstating and fully enforcing Remain-in-Mexico would deter thousands more migrants from making that deadly trek, and President Biden should take that simple step to secure the border because it is the only humane thing to do.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Because of the way that the Biden administration is not enforcing the immigration laws, it's attracting people and enticing people to make this very dangerous trek causing them to lose their lives. I urge the president, stop the loss of lives, you have the ability to stop people from losing their lives if you make it clear that no one can come across illegally.

Greg Abbott

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The central government regulators seem to be incapable of enforcing those regulations aimed at preventing this kind of bank run from occurring.

Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is not political, this is common sense, by not enforcing the laws that were designed to keep us safe, the impact on our communities is devastating.

Martina White

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

However, the Commission under Chairwoman Rosenworcel has been especially focused on investigating and enforcing violations of our 911 and outage reporting rules.

Katie Gorscak

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Right now, there are so many minor violations that are leading up to more violent criminal acts. We're at the point of anarchy, this is worse than the 80s … There is now a total lack of respect between the community and officers because we're not enforcing anything.

Felipe Rodriguez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Thank you to the French customs officers who are enforcing the European Union's sanctions against those close to the Russian government.

Le Maire

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This has gone on long enough. There is no reason to keep The Capitol closed and to continue enforcing the draconian mask mandate, the Capitol belongs to the American people, and their right to come before Congress is not contingent on wearing a mask. No more excuses, reopen The Capitol and rescind the mandates so that we can return to normal.

Andy Biggs

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Law enforcement needs to be respected, not because we were angels who walk on water, but because we're the living embodiment of the law, and when you don't even respect or value the life of the living embodiment of that individual enforcing the law, you're going to have lawlessness that's going to come.

Officer Joseph

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know what we need to do ? Stop releasing violent criminals and start enforcing the law. If you want to play catch and release, go fishing. Don't run for office, go fishing, we have already seen the effects of these policies, to decarcerate and ending mass incarceration and blanket release mandates that have already been implemented across New York, and these are the results.

Jennifer Harrison

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right now, the crime situation is really a very volatile situation, but what are the cops doing? They're going from bars to restaurants and enforcing, with very heavy fines, the vaccine passports.

Jeffrey Tucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

Justice Hugo L. Black

added by Normando
2 years ago

The game has rules. And one of the general principles is you can fight against the other party and you can fight against the media, but only if you have your party, andrew had his party enforcing a rule against him that if you have accusations, you have problems, and you don't really get to vet the accusations and you don't get to go against your accusers.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's something about American society that's been very invested in maintaining, enforcing, legalizing these racial categories or gender categories or sexual orientation categories or categories dealing with citizenship status that don't actually represent the ways that people actually experience and live their lives.

Alisha Gaines

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The [state] government has no role in enforcing it, so basically every Texas citizen is now a private attorney general.

Josh Blackman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Legal personhood is just the ability to have your interest heard and represented in court, it's about enforcing rights they already have under animal cruelty laws and other protection laws.

Christopher Berry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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