Sentence examples for enforce the act from inspiring English sources

Dr. Ron DeHaven, a veterinarian in the Agriculture Department's animal care division, has 75 inspectors to enforce the act.

The commission is authorized by Congress to enforce the act, which forbids marine terminal operators from discriminating against terminal users.

The law imposed unprecedented limits on campaign contributions and spending; created the Federal Election Commission to enforce the act; established an optional system of public financing for Presidential elections; and required extensive disclosure of campaign contributions and expenditures.

However, the agreement should not obscure one basic fact: it would never have been necessary if, over the years, Congress had provided Interior with the resources it needed to enforce the act in a systematic, timely way.

They typically send reports to Congress "consistent with" the act but not "pursuant to" it, meaning they never start the clock and Congress has not really sought to enforce the act when it has been ignored.

The petition, generated by online fan-to-fan ticket exchange Twickets and sponsored by Adam Tudhope, calls on the government to enforce the act, and to go further by forcing ticket resellers to reveal their identities, and by bringing in tougher sanctions for resale websites that do not comply.

That July, Sherman proposed an amendment to an army appropriation act to bar use of federal troops to enforce the acts of the Kansas territorial legislature, which many now viewed as an illegitimate body.

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 gave the commission the job of defining a "children's product" — which includes such things as toys, clothing and household goods — and eventually enforcing the act.

The Administration would continue to enforce DOMA — a move that Antonin Scalia later characterized as a "contrivance," writing that "this suit saw the light of day only because the President enforced the Act (and thus gave Windsor standing to sue), even though he believed it unconstitutional".

Well, the Information Commissioner's Office, which is responsible for enforcing the act, is routinely quizzed about this (often by me).

The fees collected pursuant to this subsection shall not be used to cover the costs of enforcing the Act.