(verb.) ensure observance of laws and rules; 'Apply the rules to everyone';.
(verb.) compel to behave in a certain way; 'Social relations impose courtesy'.
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Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Some of his readers suspect him of writing to enforce it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I met, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Such is the condition of our laws and practice that the patentee in seeking to enforce his rights labors under a terrible handicap. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Then leaving her seat, and coming to him to enforce the proposal, added in a whisper, We want to make a table for Mrs. Rushworth, you know. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
No Act of Parliament is now required, as originally proposed by Mr. Winsor, to enforce the burning of coal gas. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔.伟大的事实.
If you study the success of Roosevelt the point is re-enforced. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
If by some magic every taboo of the commission could be enforced the abolition of sex slavery would not have come one step nearer to reality. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
If it is, then the taboo enforced by a Morals Police is, perhaps, as good a way as any of gaining a fictitious sense of activity. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Mrs. Jennings enforced the necessity. 简·奥斯汀.理智与情感.
We could not see the enemy, so I ordered my men to lie down, an order that did not have to be enforced. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
I described, and enforced them earnestly. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
Though the object of our civil duties be the enforcing of our natural, yet the first [First in time, not in dignity or force. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
He is connected with the Mafia, which, as you know, is a secret political society, enforcing its decrees by murder. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Only humane laws can be successfully enforced; and they are the only ones really worth enforcing. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
From all, moreover, as the parable of the buried talent witnesses, and as the incident of the widow's mite enforces, he demands the utmost. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.