8 sentences with 'enforcement'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enforcement and other words derived from it.
• « There was no such thing as a police force, after all, only the guards of the rich and powerful and, usually, a city guard who answered to the city council. However, the latter was often controlled by powerful families, so that both law enforcement and personal vendettas were generally carried out by private mercenaries. »
• « This alliance was underpinned by staggering levels of official violence through law enforcement and the brutal suppression of popular uprisings. »
• « The UN was founded in 1945 as a body for arbitration and, when necessary, enforcement of internationally agreed policies, seeing its first major role in the Nuremberg Trials of the surviving Nazi leaders. »
• « People who inhabit the same territory, who speak the same language, who have a past that allows them to recognise a social identity common to all of them beyond their differences, are organised in a certain way. They have a form of government, laws that order the lives of their citizens and institutions in charge of their enforcement. »
• « In order to gain the most economic benefit from England's overseas possessions, Charles II enacted the mercantilist Navigation Acts, although many colonial merchants ignored them because their enforcement remained lax. »
• « However, the Navigation Act of 1696 created the Board of Trade, replacing the Lords of Trade. This act, intended to strengthen the enforcement of customs laws, also established vice-admiralty courts in which the crown could prosecute offenders of customs laws without the need for a jury. »
• « Historians have described this lack of strict enforcement of the Navigation Acts as a salutary neglect. Moreover, nothing prevented the colonists from building their own fleet of ships to engage in trade. »