"establish and enforce" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to refer to the imposition of laws, regulations, or rules of conduct. For example, "The government must establish and enforce stricter environmental protections."
(Mr. Duncan is to note exceptions like the California Charter Schools Association, which last week announced a plan to establish and enforce academic performance standards for charter schools).
Legislation sponsored by Senator Paul Sarbanes would create an Accounting Oversight Board to establish and enforce the standards for audits of publicly traded companies.
The industry has the ability to establish and enforce regulations that demonstrate what we all know: Good horsemanship can and should equal good business.
Managers at real estate agencies say that the only way to minimize misunderstandings is to train new agents to be highly professional and to establish and enforce industry standards.
We must now establish and enforce clear rules to contain the inordinate power of markets over our national economies and our common currency — not for Greece's sake, but for Europe's.
But another option exists that the Taliban might accept, one that allows them to achieve part of their goal of making the country more Islamic: allowing local governments to establish and enforce their own laws.
The hard work of establishing and enforcing the regulations that are needed for a truly trustworthy financial system, still lies ahead.
Society — family, tribe, caste, church, village, probate court — established and enforced its connubial protocols for the presumed good of everyone, except maybe for the couples themselves.
The Saudi legal framework for establishing and enforcing the rights of those owed money remains rudimentary and in many respects unclear, despite some modest recent reforms.
Establishing and enforcing strict federal regulations denying permits for deepwater drilling without innovative, materially supported spill contingency plans already in place is the only way to ensure the adoption of new industry practice standards.
France was responsible for establishing and enforcing the technical regulations that governed the cars; creating a scoring system that would award drivers points used to determine a series champion; organizing and promoting each race; and awarding cash prizes to the winners of races and to the series champion.
