Sentence examples for merely to enforce from inspiring English sources

But so far as certificates 'illegally procured' are concerned, this Court has heretofore permitted § 15 to be used merely to enforce the express conditions specified in the Act.

"The purpose of contempt is not punitive; the goal is not to punish the person, merely to enforce the court's order," Winkler told the Guardian.

It could proclaim it was acting merely to enforce the U.N. Middle East resolution and that once Israel's 1967 Sinai borders were reached, fighting would halt.

In his earlier dismissal, Meyer said the plaintiffs were trying merely to enforce guidelines for spring water under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and that this pre-empted their state law claims.

That includes how to make the best, in practice, of often complex parliamentary arithmetic, a willingness to listen, to compromise and to co-operate, with an eye rather more to the wider interest of the nation as a whole than, as hitherto, merely to enforcing their own narrower partisan objectives.

Local law enforcement claims that they are merely attempting to enforce long-standing lewdness and public indecency laws.

In these situations, debt investors are not merely seeking to enforce their contractual entitlement to payment, or to challenge transactions that will impair the borrower's ability to pay.

Asked by a reporter whether his bank's persistent payment demands had contributed to A.I.G.'s woes, Mr. Viniar said that Goldman had done nothing wrong and that the firm was merely seeking to enforce its insurance policy with A.I.G. "I don't think there is any guilt whatsoever," he concluded.

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In fact, the officers were merely carrying out inspections to enforce the conditions upon which people were admitted to the concert.

This further supports the proposition that § 1 of the 1871 Act did not merely authorize civil suits to enforce the guarantees of the earlier Civil Rights Acts, see supra, at 663-664.