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Officials should enforce tough building codes in seismic areas.

This will weaken efforts to enforce tough budgetary discipline in the zone.

South Korea's reluctance to challenge threats from its neighbor, along with China's more accommodating policies, made it difficult in the past to enact or enforce tough sanctions on North Korea.

Dr. Poole believes the federal government should enforce tough standards by sending teams to try to breach airport security, but otherwise the airports should be free to develop their own procedures.

It gained wider acceptance in the late 1920's, after a series of deadly fires, when the city began to enforce tough rules requiring that all buildings be outfitted with a fire escape or a second, enclosed stairwell.

He says action is needed at EU level, to set and enforce tough vehicle emissions standards, at national level, to reform tax incentives for diesels, and at local authority level, to create low emissions zones.

States could enforce tougher standards of their own.

The pharmaceutical industry has lobbied the United States to require other countries to enforce tougher patent restrictions, although the details are still being worked out.

The ban is the latest in a series of decisions by Hamas, which governs here, seeking to enforce tougher Islamic strictures on an already conservative society.

Housing Conservation Coordinators, a nonprofit tenants' association that works with public officials to draft and enforce tougher housing laws, has been fighting illegal hotel conversions since 2003.

Military officials have worked to enforce tougher restrictions on proselytizing and religious bias since a flare-up over religious discrimination in 2005 at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, where the football coach posted a locker room banner for "Team Jesus".