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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually being enforced" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the implementation or application of rules, laws, or policies in a practical context.
Example: "Despite the new regulations, many people are unsure if they are actually being enforced in our community."
Alternatives: "truly being applied" or "genuinely being implemented".
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It's often hard to draw the line between perception and practice, between how certain government regulations are viewed and how they're actually being enforced.
Over the summer not only were new rules introduced, outlawing hits from behind and head hits from any direction, but those regulations are actually being enforced, by Brendan Shanahan, the new league official in charge of player safety.
"The main thing is to send the message that the immigration laws are actually being enforced again," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a thinktank that advocates for tighter controls on immigration.
Previously, he said, corporate travel managers "were afraid to not let somebody do what they wanted to do and stay where they wanted to stay because they might go to work for somebody else -- but I think now the travel policies that were in place in the past are actually being enforced a lot more".
"What I would consider progress by the end of the year is to see signs that the current legal arrangement is actually being enforced". But lawmakers said the pressure is on the whole of Congress — not only newly galvanized House Democrats — to respond to the scandals of last year and set clear rules to keep Silicon Valley in line.
And the "ban on biological weapon development?" Who says that is actually being enforced anywhere?
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These smart regulations (environmental, financial, consumer protection) should actually be enforced.
"To be effective, data protection rights need to actually be enforced".
"It is in no national security interest for the government to put up a law for political purposes which couldn't actually be enforced.
Worse, the human-rights standards upon which the aid was originally contingent have been substantially diluted – and it's far from clear whether even those watered-down guidelines will actually be enforced in any meaningful way.
Rather than a voluntary gift, climate finance is theorised as compulsory, an obligation on polluting countries that is not only moral but quasi-legal (only quasi-legal because it is hard to see how such agreements can actually be enforced in practice).
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