as in to implement
to carry out effectively
the duty of the police is to enforce the law
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Climate pollution The Supreme Court this week allowed the EPA to temporarily enforce its rules regulating planet-warming pollution from power plants.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
And even the chief of the state's prison system has claimed the law would be extremely expensive to enforce.
—Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Unsurprisingly, Musk didn’t touch on the restrictions enforced by Congress during his presentation at the We, Robot event last week.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
And while users are allotted certain credits for using AI, Adobe isn’t enforcing those limits for most plans.
—John Kell, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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Alexandra Banner, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024
And even the chief of the state's prison system has claimed the law would be extremely expensive to enforce.
—Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
Unsurprisingly, Musk didn’t touch on the restrictions enforced by Congress during his presentation at the We, Robot event last week.
—Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
And while users are allotted certain credits for using AI, Adobe isn’t enforcing those limits for most plans.
—John Kell, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Enforce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enforce. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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