Sentence examples for historically enforced from inspiring English sources

The national conversation around race and policing has shifted so dramatically that the director of the FBI said law enforcement officials historically enforced "a status quo that was often brutally unfair to disfavored groups" and discussed how unconscious racial bias affects police officers with no pushback from the law enforcement community.

This was the organisation that historically enforced slavery and colonialism on many of my ancestors (it also enforced the abolition of slavery, but we tend to skate over that fact); the same organisation that until 1977 instructed its medical officers to use secret designations to single out and reject potential recruits with "Asiatic or negroid features" – so called "D-factor" personnel.

Within the USA, a traditional sexual double standard (SDS) granting greater sexual privilege to males relative to their female counterparts has historically enforced behavioral conformity to distinct sexual scripts.

The details of the tribunal and appeal procedures are relevant to the Supreme Court only insofar as the detainees can claim a right to due process or other constitutional rights that the federal courts historically enforce for prisoners through writs of habeas corpus.

Comey essentially argued that criminal laws targeting the rich and powerful have not historically been enforced.

In fact, historically, given the enforced subsuming of a woman's identity into her marriage (being made to quit work and dedicate herself to the household, not having an outside life), it's not a stretch to say that women have been more hard-done-by, more brutally compromised by the confines of monogamy than men have.

The biggest challenge is in Germany, which has historically tended to enforce fiscal and economic rectitude on its neighbors.

Historically, FDA has not generally enforced premarket review and other applicable requirements because LDTs were relatively simple and available on a limited basis.

Revolutionary vigilantes enforced the rulings, occasionally travelling to villages with historically rooted musical traditions to make their leader's decision known.

In the years leading up to the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban had enforced a ban on opium-poppy cultivation, resulting in historically low levels of production.

Historically, the laws against selling alcohol and tobacco to minors have been enforced only sporadically​, and it turns out that enforcing them more aggressively - for example, by sending undercover youth buyers into stores to attempt purchase without identification - can succeed in reducing underage drinking and its attendant harms.