How to Use unenforced in a Sentence

unenforced

adjective
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  • When the migrants showed up in places like Greece, Italy and Norway, laws went unenforced.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Hui jumped to a 4-0 start in the semifinals with help of unenforced errors by Glozman.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But for the most part, Huffer says, laws are ambiguous and unenforced.
    — Oscar Schwartz, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But Young said Monday his team found an existing — but unenforced — city law with a $250 fine and no points.
    — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2018
  • Meanwhile, Michigan and West Virginia had pre-Roe bans on the books that were never repealed and went unenforced for years.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 July 2022
  • For years, the ban went unenforced, and a host of dog-friendly bars and restaurants thrived in the increasingly young and affluent city.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Over the past two decades, Swiss farms have, on average, grown in size, and some aspects of the welfare law have either been watered down or left unenforced.
    — Lisa Abend/zurich, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But Keys also made more mistakes, committing 19 unenforced errors in the third set alone, and 37 for the entire match.
    — Alex Coffey, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
  • On Tuesday, the board voted to remove an unenforced 20-minute cap on the total time for public comment.
    — Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2017
  • But the flip side is that having unenforced rules about how pitchers operate is how the game arrived at this issue.
    — ABC News, 27 June 2021
  • Others are poised to enforce restrictive laws that have remained unenforced since Roe was passed.
    — Whitney Curtis For Cnn, CNN, 15 May 2022
  • Never mind amendments and court rulings that went unenforced.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • None of these policies were perfect; many remain unenforced.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • This often-unenforced rule is one of many listed by the FDA for mandating how certain names of products must be identified.
    — Caroline Judelson, Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • By contrast, a decade after the Civil War, as federal troops were withdrawn from the South, the decrees of Reconstruction went unenforced.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • But until recently, the law has gone largely unenforced.
    — Robin Urevich, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Some cities have minor laws regarding the treatment of animals, but those are often specific to dogs and cats or unenforced.
    — National Geographic, 18 July 2016
  • The Marcos family appealed the ruling and lost — but the order has gone largely unenforced, with only partial payments to some victims.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • More:Mask mandate in Hamilton, Butler counties may go unenforced.
    — Segann March, The Enquirer, 8 July 2020
  • For much of the pandemic, Russia has eschewed public health measures, while mask mandates go largely unenforced.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Additional lawsuits could also target old antiabortion laws that were left on the books and went unenforced under Roe.
    — Kevin McGill, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022
  • This data differs from that of the CDC, perhaps because birth rate reporting is inconsistent and unenforced.
    — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • Tokyo and surrounding prefectures have been placed under a state of emergency for most of this year, but the measures are largely unenforced and have been falling on deaf ears among a pandemic-weary public.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • For another, no one on the face of this planet has ever actually believed that an unenforced mandate is crucial to the operation of Obamacare as a whole.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The law went unenforced against tech companies until a local newspaper, The Stranger, published a story in December in the wake of the Russia allegations asking why.
    — David Ingram, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Texas’ pre-trial efforts to overturn the vaccination requirement stalled in the courts, but after warning last fall about consequences for employees who don’t get the shot, the district has left it unenforced.
    — Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022
  • National security is critical, and make no mistake, eight months of unenforced borders places us all at risk.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Arizona companies support unenforced law Science Care began in 2000 when founder James Rogers spotted a need after working with seniors on end-of-life planning.
    — Stephanie Innes, AZCentral.com, 10 June 2019
  • Existing antitrust law would allow the government to prevent big mergers that mean farmers have fewer places to sell their crops and that supplies are more expensive, but those laws go largely unenforced, says Carstensen.
    — Alana Semuels / Fremont, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The phenomenon was pervasive two decades ago, when the law was largely unenforced, Caplan said, but remains a problem from California to Virginia.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 12 Jan. 2018

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