as in demanded
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as in implemented
to carry out effectively
the duty of the police is to enforce the law
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Recent Examples of enforced
Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Please consider supporting our work to make sure that period product access legislation is enforced in all 29 states, and gets written, passed and enforced correctly in the 21 others.
—Suzanne Herman, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Or are they governed by strict and broadly enforced noninterference rules that benefit the winner and exclude anyone else?
—Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Israel says those and other provisions were never enforced.
—Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
Depending on how the currently vague noninterference rules are interpreted and enforced by the Chinese (and others), significant parts of the moon might end up off-limits for anyone else to explore or mine.
—Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Such legislation should also explicitly repeal or sunset the rules and regulations once enforced by these agencies, ensuring that their regulatory influence and legal effect vanishes alongside.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Dell’s return-to-office (RTO) mandates have reportedly been enforced with VPN and badge tracking.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
Speaking of booze, drinking alcohol in a gondola is another across-the-board no-no at North American resorts, even if it’s rarely enforced.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
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As for how compliance is enforced, hospitals are typically given warnings instead of fines.
—Jade Gomez, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Please consider supporting our work to make sure that period product access legislation is enforced in all 29 states, and gets written, passed and enforced correctly in the 21 others.
—Suzanne Herman, refinery29.com, 2 Oct. 2024
Or are they governed by strict and broadly enforced noninterference rules that benefit the winner and exclude anyone else?
—Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Israel says those and other provisions were never enforced.
—Aamer Madhani, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024
Depending on how the currently vague noninterference rules are interpreted and enforced by the Chinese (and others), significant parts of the moon might end up off-limits for anyone else to explore or mine.
—Thomas Zurbuchen, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Such legislation should also explicitly repeal or sunset the rules and regulations once enforced by these agencies, ensuring that their regulatory influence and legal effect vanishes alongside.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Dell’s return-to-office (RTO) mandates have reportedly been enforced with VPN and badge tracking.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2024
Speaking of booze, drinking alcohol in a gondola is another across-the-board no-no at North American resorts, even if it’s rarely enforced.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enforced
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The District 16 race margin is within the threshold for a mandatory recount, while the District 19 margin is just outside the threshold.Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
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Dismayed by tedious, mandatory and frequently counterproductive diversity, equity and inclusion seminars that treat white skin as almost inherently problematic?Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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In the future, researchers believe similar dating methodologies could one day be applied to not just other meteorites, but planets.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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Uruguayans are not obliged to vote in the plebiscites, but voting in the congressional and presidential races is compulsory.Nayara Batschke and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
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Lawmakers are calling for the introduction of a minimum age restriction of 14 years for using fatbikes and making wearing helmets compulsory.AFP, Fortune Europe, 13 Sep. 2024
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Especially when executed at a large scale of hundreds of code changes, this becomes a management challenge.Mike Waas, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Actual causes Lawyer Gretchen Sween, who joined Roberson's case about two months before he was supposed to be executed in 2016, said she was struck by how little investigators took Nikki's past health issues into consideration.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Enforced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforced. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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