Every law-enforcement officer has some leeway in choosing which laws to enforce, which is why it's rare to get a ticket for jaywalking, for example.
Land acquisition and disposal are governed by archaic laws, barely enforced, which hinder investment.
So Beimel performs like an enforcer, which is how Bonds hits.
The city's sign regulations are labyrinthine and rarely enforced, which is why many business owners ignore them.
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an injunction that would prevent the old policy from being enforced, which led to Friday's announcement.
And if you arrive one minute late, the no-latecomer policy is strictly enforced (which I discovered the hard way racing to a show).
Others will simply not be enforced, which is why it's not surprising that banks have been among the biggest winners in the stock-market rally.
Mr. Saakashvili said a consequence of the years of corruption was that the real laws were not enforced, which meant safe driving habits were never encouraged.
"For a tax system to work, taxes have to be fair across the board and penalties have to be enforced, which is not the case now," Mr. Rakintzis said.
She pushed her luck by saying in public that she had no desire to move least of all to the non-job of "cabinet enforcer", which Downing Street insiders know more accurately as "minister for the 'Today' programme".
As a first step, current Chinese labor law needs to be enforced, which your article rightly notes is rarely done and targets supposedly deep-pocketed foreign companies when it is.
