Sentence examples for enforced for years from inspiring English sources

A similar marine exclusion area has been enforced for years right before shuttle launchings, but the current one was put into effect on Oct. 1.

The blackout rule enforced for years before and after 1968 by the A.F.L. and the N.F.L. prohibited viewers from watching their teams play at home for fear that giving away the games on television would hurt attendance.

Mr. Heilig said it was a crime under the state law for any non-Indian to possess untaxed cigarettes purchased at Indian reservations or through online vendors, although the law had not been enforced for years.

Hong Kong currently has a sedition law dating from colonial times that prohibits people from bringing the government "into hatred or contempt," but it has not been enforced for years.

But New York has a hallowed history of persnickety cooks: Kenny Shopsin became something of a cult figure for the litany of rules — including no parties bigger than four, and no more than one order at each table of any particular dish — enforced for years at Shopsin's diner in the West Village, now a small outpost at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.

But those orders are often not enforced for years.

At the same time, federal judges agreed to the state's request for a two-year extension to meet population caps the courts had been trying to enforce for years.

At The Times, such rules have been stated and vigorously enforced for many years.

In 2008 Jamaica voted to retain the death penalty, though it had not been enforced for 20 years.

He loves guns, his family, his Mormon faith, his country and the law, which he enforced for many years as deputy sheriff of Maricopa County.

In the course of enforcing laws that had not been enforced for 25 years, we were being more proactive, we were engaging more people, and often they didn't like it.