enforce

suomi-englanti sanakirja

enforce englannista suomeksi

To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force. (defdate)

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1929, (w), quoted in “Nationalist Notes,” ''(w)'', 11 February, 1929,https://web.archive.org/web/20130721131625/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,737333,00.html

Our task is only half finished. It will be my duty to enforce the decisions of the conference and I hereby pledge myself to that end.

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To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize. (defdate)
To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc. (defdate)
To intensify, make stronger, add force to. (defdate)
To exert oneself, to try hard. (defdate)
(RQ:Malory Le Morte Darthur)
To compel, oblige (someone or something); to force. (defdate)
(RQ:Marlowe Edward 2)
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)had been hunting late, and were enforced to lodge in a poor cottage.
(quote-book)
To make or gain by force; to force.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to energize.
(RQ:Burke Regicide Peace)
To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
To prove; to evince.
(RQ:Hooker Laws)