Sentence examples similar to In the act of enforcing from inspiring English sources
Furthermore, Yale had a comparative disadvantage in enforcing these contracts, because the act of enforcement was alienating its own alumni, creating bad will.
If politics were enough, "A Family Tour" would suffice as a hard-won work of freedom in the face of unjust authority, as an act of revelatory declaration in the face of enforced silence.
Ross claimed he was acting at the request of the Justice Department in the interest of enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
A state that requires self-immolation in the act of genuine resistance is a state designed to enforce compliance.
After the commerce act came into effect, no contract that was inconsistent with the regulations established by the act of Congress could be enforced in any court.
I believe that President Obama has acted wisely in authorizing the current campaign of enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya.
On the contrary, as we have seen, it expressly provides that all other remedies are left unaffected by the act, and a duty cast by statute equally with a common-law duty may by the very language of the act be enforced in any manner known to the law.
The federal judge George W Anderson said the Justice Department was engaging in "utterly illegal acts, committed by those charged with the highest duty of enforcing the laws".
The Bureau of Investigation (later renamed the FBI) took charge of enforcing the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, which, in effect, made it illegal to oppose the war and the draft.
Consequently, unless local magistrates were particularly interested in the issue, the Act was poorly enforced.
