unenforced

adjective

un·en·forced ˌən-in-ˈfȯrst

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: not given force or carried out effectively : not enforced

an unenforced law/rule

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Trump, during his first term in office, took a hard line against Iran and its proxies and is likely to revive that policy if back in office — tightening oil sanctions that critics say have gone unenforced during the Biden administration. —

Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024 Financial limitations and staffing constraints mean that codes and standards more often than not remain unenforced. —

Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024 But when those rules went unenforced, the Legislature turned regulations against false advertising into a state law. —

James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024 But binding guarantees—in contrast to the unenforced Budapest memorandum of 1994, which Russia first violated in 2014 by seizing Crimea—would furnish all sides with a solution to the essential problem of Ukraine’s security. —

Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2022 See all Example Sentences for unenforced