Sentence examples for hardly enforced from inspiring English sources

Some 21 countries, including a usually virtuous G7 member, Canada, hardly enforced it at all.

The mayor at the time, Charlie Luken, imposed a citywide curfew that largely ended the riots but was hardly enforced in white neighborhoods.

For decades the FCPA, which prohibits bribery of foreign government officials, was a sleepy statute, hardly enforced.

The police can hardly enforce a law that left a policeman's wife and daughter dead.

Colonial anti-sodomy laws did exist, Kennedy wrote in Lawrence, but they applied to everyone, not just to men; also, they were hardly ever enforced and "it was not until the 1970's that any State singled out same-sex relations for criminal prosecution, and only nine States have done so".

More important, the ban on feed has hardly been enforced.

Hazel Blears's bill died a death [and] minimum wage law is hardly being enforced for interns.

But it was hardly ever enforced, and it was not until the 1960s that the first in a series of ever more effective laws was enacted, coming initially from London and more recently from Brussels.

When I met Singhal, in 2009, he insisted that the law had hardly been enforced — he said claims that gay men had been harassed by police were propaganda — but maintained that it should remain in place, because "it inhibits people from freely becoming homosexuals".

At the same time, organizational guidelines and policies can hardly be enforced in a decentralized environment.

Finally, the Department of Justice has hardly ever enforced certain laws that impose fines on prosecutors for their civil rights violations.