Sentence examples for existed to enforce from inspiring English sources

Grieve issued the warning after Claire Perry, a Tory backbencher, asked what mechanism existed to enforce the will of the court.

After all, in the decade since Seattle, most of South America liberated itself not just from a legacy of American-supported dictandrs andeathth squads, but from the economic programs those instruments existed to enforce.

Here's one: Do gossip columns exist to enforce community standards, as sociologists maintain?

"The more regulations that exist to enforce federal law protecting conscience rights, the better," Bowman said.

Ancillary characters exist to enforce the increasingly unstable hold of slavery and to behave with a casual cruelty that makes a mockery of law.

States commonly discourage people from weighing their vehicles at highway weigh stations, which exist to enforce regulations limiting the weight of commercial trucks.

Of course battles remain – particularly over the defence and implementation of legislation to protect workers (what's the point of having a minimum wage if the resources don't exist to enforce it?) but it's interesting to note that the party that brought in Section 28 was the party that legislated for equal marriage.

Proponents argue that the number of criminal convictions overturned under the rule has been minimal and that no other effective mechanism exists to enforce the Fourth Amendment.

Few mechanisms exist to enforce humanitarian law, and states and the U.N. are often unable -- or perhaps unwilling -- to provide protection.

Thus, for example, the police exist to enforce law and order, and this facilitates the will of the general populace; yet they also suppress the will of the criminal.

While legislation now exists to enforce standardization of research ethics review systems, no provision has been made for resources or capacity development, especially to support historically-disadvantaged institutions.