Sentence examples for could have enforced from inspiring English sources
Melville could have enforced the follow-on, but didn't consider it for even a minute.
The only way Russia could have enforced that ceasefire would have been to intervene with its own forces on the ground, a prospect Power would surely have liked even less.
Under threat condition charlie, the Cole could have enforced a complete exclusion zone around the ship and could have canceled all contract work -- the very refueling from a Yemeni vendor that was the Cole's official business in the port of Aden.
The logical conclusion of this reasoning is that if the government could have enforced arranged marriage with a federal law, it should have, since no one could predict the outcome of these newfangled romantic-love marriages, which altered the institution of marriage forever.
The dynamic nature of the largely riverine and geologically active Central American landscape relative to the East African Great Lakes could have enforced a relatively slow fuse on the explosive diversification rate of CA Heroines.
It is even harder to envision, how selective pressure could have enforced the evolution of such a super-tight structure, if its tightness must be bypassed by additional passive diffusion channels.
Now "religionists" have enforced a precarious order.
While the norm against torture could have been enforced through criminal prosecution, even in the absence of the remedy of civil damages, the Obama administration then eliminated the option of prosecution.
Some experts and critics have suggested that the only way the respirator rules could have been enforced after rescue operations ended would have been to temporarily shut down the site and lay down the law: No respirator, no work.
Dumfries and Galloway Council turned down both a by-law and rules which could have been enforced by its staff.
According to a current census office employee (personal communication), it was 'forced regrouping' although it is hard to envisage how this could have been enforced.
