The phrase "administer a law" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the enforcement or implementation of legal statutes or regulations.
Example: "The government is responsible for administering the law to ensure justice and order in society."
Alternatives: "enforce a law" or "implement a law".
For purposes of administering a law, we surely could agree on who is truly ugly, perhaps the worst-looking 1 or 2 percent of the population.
Their courts, set up by the merchants themselves at trade fairs or in cities, administered a law that was uniform throughout Europe, regardless of differences in national laws and languages.
Both the appeals court and the court whose opinion it overturned today were created solely to administer a 1978 law allowing the government to conduct intelligence wiretaps inside the United States.
He proposed that the courts be staffed with Egyptian and foreign judges, who would administer a body of law based on French law and compiled by an international commission.
Some lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction about the number of people who would benefit from the bill and loopholes within the public distribution system in India, the existing food subsidy program through which the provisions of the bill will be administered once it becomes a law.
Today, in countries as far apart as Kenya and Pakistan, Shariah courts still administer family law — a small subset of their original historical jurisdiction.
Five years later it ruled that Congress could not require state officials to help administer a federal gun control law by performing background checks of prospective gun buyers.
The proper goal of the government should be to administer the law in a disinterested and evenhanded way, letting the chips fall where they may.
"The people who actually administer the law are carrying a lot of gender bias," Batliwala says.
"We think the phase-in approach really is a way to administer the law better and enhance overall compliance".
