Sentence examples for attempting to enforce from inspiring English sources

Local law enforcement claims that they are merely attempting to enforce long-standing lewdness and public indecency laws.

The missionary kingdoms addressed problems of European lawlessness in the islands by attempting to enforce a scriptural code of law.

The Education Department is attempting to enforce a "collective bargaining agreement" on a union that does not agree.

Because they are attempting to enforce and comply with rules that we all know to be fundamentally unfair to the student-athlete.

The draft deplored the "use or threat of force by any claimant attempting to enforce disputed claims" in the sea ie, it was a warning to China.

They are against governments, and universities, attempting to enforce non-homophobic behaviour through detailed regulations; they could write for The Economist (one of them, Jonathan Rauch, sometimes does).

In the meantime, federal immigration databases should be denied to police attempting to enforce a law that would usurp federal powers.

Libyans are unlikely to be grateful to be bombed by those same western governments attempting to enforce a no-fly zone.

The Cultural Revolution (1966 76) attempted to enforce ideological orthodoxy, and it too proved disastrous.

Through threats, extortion and public shaming, the group attempts to enforce political, ideological and linguistic purity.

Instead, the system attempts to enforce metacognitive learning by requiring an appropriate definition of quantities before they are used.