Sentence examples for enforced could not from inspiring English sources

Even a monopoly so ruthlessly enforced could not help but leak, and the VOC's overheads were huge tens of thousands of employees, garrisons, war-ships.

24 Such structural, upstream interventions – if adequately designed and enforced – could not only result in large and rapid gains, 15 but could also reduce inequalities, 25 or at least not generate or aggravate them.

If Hardin is right and the point here is not to claim that he is, but rather to point out the worldly importance of determining which games agents are in fact playing then the mere presence of an external enforcer (NATO?) would not have changed the game, pace the Hobbesian analysis, since the enforcer could not have threatened either side with anything worse than what each feared from the other.

Suppose the undertaking given up had been one rendered unavailing by the Statute of Limitations, no action would have lain upon it, but the attempt to enforce it could not perhaps have been resisted without injury to the defendant's mercantile character; the relinquishment of it, therefore, would have been [113 Eng. Rep. 121] good consideration for a promise.

But specific performance of the promise would not be enforced, the promise could not be pleaded in bar of an action, and it would not support a motion to stay.

When I asked my opposing counsel if she meant it to be enforced so he could not talk to his son for two years, she said yes.

Enforcing clawback provisions could not be more paramount.

Although enforced expression of PIK3CA could not induce OSE anchorage-independent growth, it significantly increased anchorage-independent growth of OSE transformed by mutant K-ras.

That way, the enforced reform measures couldn't be totally half-assed.

On May 3, 1943, this Court held that cities and states could not enforce laws which impose flat taxes on the privilege of door-to-door sales of religious literature, Jones v. Opelika, 319 U.S. 103, 63 S.Ct.

Nor has it been enforced, because the Massachusetts Attorney General, Frances X . Bellotti said the law could not be enforced.