Sentence examples for active role in enforcing from inspiring English sources

The states, all of them touching on the Great Lakes, announced on Thursday that they wanted the agency to take an active role in enforcing regulations that control the discharge of ballast water from oceangoing vessels.

Gays are far from the only Americans still facing discrimination, but as Boies said when I interviewed him about the Prop 8 case last week, the ban on same-sex marriage "is the last area in which the state is taking an active role in enforcing discrimination".

His steadfast reluctance to protect minority rights would leave him a lonely figure, as his (later) liberal colleagues on the Warren Court took an active role in enforcing constitutional limits on the desires of majorities.

Village fishing associations play an active role in fisheries management by collectively designing, monitoring, and enforcing local regulations.

Likewise, the ʿulamāʾ began to take a more active role in agitating against Sufism and other forms of popular religion, which remained strong in Iran, and in enforcing a more scholarly type of Shīʿism among the masses.

Duncan must contend with critics on the right who don't accept the federal government's active role in education and those on the left who see him as a neoliberal enforcer, exploiting Obama's Democratic bona fides to impose the free-market reform agenda on the unions.

Houpt played an active role in that process, and as an OGCC member, she still plays an active role in seeing those rules enforced.

"You have an active role in fate.

He has played an active role in Labour politics".

I play an active role in the label.

And she has taken an active role in melanoma awareness.