How to Use unenforced in a Sentence

unenforced

adjective
  • An unenforced law protects no one.
    — Earl Ormond, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Never mind amendments and court rulings that went unenforced.
    — Christopher Wilson, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • But for the most part, Huffer says, laws are ambiguous and unenforced.
    — Oscar Schwartz, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But the flip side is that having unenforced rules about how pitchers operate is how the game arrived at this issue.
    — ABC News, 27 June 2021
  • When the migrants showed up in places like Greece, Italy and Norway, laws went unenforced.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Our workers have already been slammed by decades of imbalanced and unenforced trade agreements and policies.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Others are poised to enforce restrictive laws that have remained unenforced since Roe was passed.
    — Whitney Curtis For Cnn, CNN, 15 May 2022
  • Hui jumped to a 4-0 start in the semifinals with help of unenforced errors by Glozman.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • For years, the ban went unenforced, and a host of dog-friendly bars and restaurants thrived in the increasingly young and affluent city.
    — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The law against recreational cannabis is often unenforced, leading to a culture where its use is tolerated among the youth.
    — Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • But Young said Monday his team found an existing — but unenforced — city law with a $250 fine and no points.
    — Luke Broadwater, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2018
  • Some cities have minor laws regarding the treatment of animals, but those are often specific to dogs and cats or unenforced.
    — National Geographic, 18 July 2016
  • Over the past two decades, Swiss farms have, on average, grown in size, and some aspects of the welfare law have either been watered down or left unenforced.
    — Lisa Abend/zurich, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • On Tuesday, the board voted to remove an unenforced 20-minute cap on the total time for public comment.
    — Jordan Graham, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2017
  • National security is critical, and make no mistake, eight months of unenforced borders places us all at risk.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Now for too long, immigration law was ignored, frankly, and basically unenforced.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • Financial limitations and staffing constraints mean that codes and standards more often than not remain unenforced.
    — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
  • For much of the pandemic, Russia has eschewed public health measures, while mask mandates go largely unenforced.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Additional lawsuits could also target old antiabortion laws that were left on the books and went unenforced under Roe.
    — Kevin McGill, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, Michigan and West Virginia had pre-Roe bans on the books that were never repealed and went unenforced for years.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 24 July 2022
  • But Keys also made more mistakes, committing 19 unenforced errors in the third set alone, and 37 for the entire match.
    — Alex Coffey, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2021
  • This often-unenforced rule is one of many listed by the FDA for mandating how certain names of products must be identified.
    — Caroline Judelson, Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • The Marcos family appealed the ruling and lost — but the order has gone largely unenforced, with only partial payments to some victims.
    — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 1 May 2023
  • But when those rules went unenforced, the Legislature turned regulations against false advertising into a state law.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • Until then, the fates of both fishermen and sharks remain a matter of clandestine migrations, unenforced regulations, and taut fishing line.
    — Richard Pallardy, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Tokyo and surrounding prefectures have been placed under a state of emergency for most of this year, but the measures are largely unenforced and have been falling on deaf ears among a pandemic-weary public.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
  • For another, no one on the face of this planet has ever actually believed that an unenforced mandate is crucial to the operation of Obamacare as a whole.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Sep. 2019
  • This data differs from that of the CDC, perhaps because birth rate reporting is inconsistent and unenforced.
    — Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
  • In Massachusetts, e-bikes are categorized as mopeds and prohibited on bike paths, though bike advocates say the law is largely unenforced.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Texas’ pre-trial efforts to overturn the vaccination requirement stalled in the courts, but after warning last fall about consequences for employees who don’t get the shot, the district has left it unenforced.
    — Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2022

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