Definition of "enforce" []

• To compel observance of or obedience to: enforce a law. (verb-transitive)
• To impose (a kind of behavior, for example): enforce military discipline. (verb-transitive)
• To give force to; reinforce: "enforces its plea with a description of the pains of hell” ( Albert C. Baugh). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Obama administration won a temporary stay against the moratorium on "don't ask, don't tell" Wednesday, granting the Pentagon the right to once again enforce the 17-year-old ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military."
• "The executive has to set priorities and if a law that makes sick people sicker, puts honest people in jail, costs a lot of money, has almost no discernible benefits, and that you promised not to enforce is not a good candidate for the bottom of the pile, what is?"
• "Be easy to enforce from a small fixed wing aircraft."