enforce the law
idiom
: to make sure that people obey the law
The job of the police is to enforce the law.
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See, for example, telling the Department of Justice not to enforce the law banning commercial hosting transactions with TikTok, giving Elon Musk’s DOGE effort unprecedented access to government data, and attempting to shut down the CFPB and erase the US Agency for International Development.
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 19 Feb. 2025
These companies were given twelve months to figure out how to enforce the law or face fines that could exceed thirty million dollars.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
If Trump refuses to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, the burden shifts to those in power to enforce the law.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Yet TikTok is still available in the U.S. in some sort of Kafkaesque legal limbo because President Trump refuses to enforce the law on the books.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 19 Feb. 2025
These companies were given twelve months to figure out how to enforce the law or face fines that could exceed thirty million dollars.
—Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
If Trump refuses to comply with a Supreme Court ruling, the burden shifts to those in power to enforce the law.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
Yet TikTok is still available in the U.S. in some sort of Kafkaesque legal limbo because President Trump refuses to enforce the law on the books.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for enforce the law
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“Enforce the law.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enforce%20the%20law. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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