Sentence examples for first to enforce from inspiring English sources

If baseball has a no-visitors rule, the manager should be the first to enforce it, not flout it.

Although arguments for the abolition of tipping have been around for a while, and Meyer is not even the first to enforce the policy here, the prestige of his mark and chain makes his choice seem less idiosyncratic than pace-setting.

Disruption of either the putative stems or loops of the repeat A abrogated silencing, and mutations of the first palindrome to enforce pairing within a repeat, or between the first and second repeat, supported models that the first palindrome forms a hairpin.

This move was its first attempt to enforce some authority in the north, and took most western states by surprise.

Australia is to become the first country to enforce the plain packaging of cigarettes but tobacco companies have vowed to fight the new legislation in court.

One of the cynical arguments that Senate members recently invoked in ducking their responsibility to enact stronger gun controls was that the government first needed to enforce laws already on the books.

In 1938, the French government decided to enact a first legislation to enforce admission of the mentally ill to hospitals.

The first is to enforce the values of (tilde{x}) in the known region, for example, using an indicator function.

The first attempts to enforce the revenue laws were met by stiff resistance from a number of Massachusetts communities.

With the passing of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 on 11 November 1999 the doctrine was significantly altered, and it now allows a third party to enforce the terms of a contract if the third party is specifically authorised to do so by the contract or if the contractual terms "purport to confer a benefit" on such third party.

The first proposal to reform the doctrine of privity was made in 1937 by the Law Revision Committee in its Sixth Interim Report, which proposed an act of Parliament to allow third parties to enforce terms of a contract that specifically allowed them to do so.