6 sentences with “enforced”

Social and legal divisions between different classes and categories were never so marked and enforced as in the 18th century.

Similarly, Greek legal codes certainly enforced a sharp gender division, and Greek households were definitely divided into male-dominated public spaces and the private sphere of the family.

The Abbasid caliphs enforced fair trade practices and used their well-trained armies primarily to secure good trade routes, to enforce fair tax collection and to quell occasional rebellions.

While their subjects experienced Assyrian rule as militarily enforced tyranny, the Assyrian kings took pride in Mesopotamia's cultural and intellectual heritage and supported learning and scholarship.

This amounted to a royal-controlled and militarily enforced monopoly of maritime trade between Europe and India and Africa that lasted well into the 16th century. Thus, tiny Portugal was, for a time, one of the richest states in Europe.

The general pattern seems to be that women in Greece itself faced greater legal restrictions than those living in Greek colonies elsewhere in the Hellenistic world, which is not surprising since the ancient Greek polis had centuries of laws and traditions that enforced sexual divisions.