In the past, local family-planning goals were sometimes enforced brutally.

Numerous restrictions and prohibitions targeting Jews were introduced and brutally enforced.

Although this was at first brutally enforced against men's communities, protests resulted in gradual abandonment of the measures.

Series of restrictions and prohibitions were introduced and brutally enforced.

He was vain, greedy and arrogant and during his time as Lord of Lampeter his control of the courts and their finances - their revenue meant to be a means to enforce things like road repairs and trade tariffs - was brutally enforced.

In the latter the Boer leader was within his rights, though the rights may have been harshly construed and brutally enforced.

Christian missionaries were seen as a serious threat to the power of the daimyo, and the peace and order of the domain; the shogunal ban on Christianity was enforced more strictly and brutally in Satsuma, perhaps, than anywhere else in the archipelago.

Strict rules governing status and dress have been enforced, and I am sure we have all seen images of how the Taliban so-called religious police have brutally enforced these rules.

The ban on political meetings is being brutally enforced by members of the secret military police.