Now it becomes clear that, once again, it's the woman's responsibility to enforce morality in every workplace, home and university across the country.

However it is much harder to enforce morality using social forces in much larger groups.

By the 1880s, the police had developed into a nationwide instrument of government control, providing support for local leaders and enforcing public morality.

Brutes were necessary to enforce morality on the masses.

The Code did not enforce Catholic morality; there were, for example, no laws against sodomy.

Everyone's so friggin' lazy with enforcing morality by using one's own discretion.

In so doing, Hart argues, it is not necessary to abandon the position that resists the use of the criminal law to enforce morality.

"It would create a wrong impression that asking people to drive slower or not to litter is trying to enforce morality," the Mayor protests.

A century before, laws enforcing public morality were christened blue laws.

The state remained reluctant to initiate legislation to enforce morality, though by the 1880s it was clearly responsive to its perception of public pressure.