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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acted to enforce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing actions taken to implement or uphold a law, rule, or policy.
Example: "The organization acted to enforce the new regulations aimed at improving safety standards."
Alternatives: "took steps to uphold" or "moved to implement".
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Meanwhile, at the peace talks the US increasingly acted to enforce the regime's edicts on the opposition.
Given the contentious history, advocates pursued the lawsuit, in which the immigrants contend that their arrests were illegal, part of a campaign based on racial profiling in which the city acted to enforce federal immigration law without authority.
In Providence, Moses and other Friends formed an Abolition Society and acted to enforce the laws, but in 1795 the Rhode Island slave trade reached prewar levels and afterward rose to new heights.
Instead, Huppenthal acted to enforce this odd law.
After repeatedly being attacked and terrorized by the KKK, police, and mobs of white citizens, Williams concluded, "The lawful authorities of Monroe and North Carolina acted to enforce order only after, and as a direct result of, our being armed".
It is theoretically possible that evolutionary constraints have acted to enforce honest call climaxes, but in the absence of selection specifically for honesty [ 24].
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Their illegal status acts to enforce their contracts.
Everyone profits if the terms of the cease-fire are carried out, so everyone acts to enforce it.
This acts to enforce the code and, more than incidentally, a high standard of personal honesty as well".
Obama also drew a "red line" against Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons, but then failed to act to enforce it militarily when the Syrian leader was found to have used such weapons.
A prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed as intellectually disabled by all medical experts who have examined him will be put to death on Monday unless the US supreme court acts to enforce its own constitutional ban on executing "mentally retarded" individuals.
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