The Black Adept was neither noble nor wicked; he merely enforced his strictures effectively.

We were repeatedly told that Reno was merely enforcing "the law."

In America there was the expectation that cops were heroic figures who didn't merely enforce the law, but who protected the innocent as well.

The city said that it was merely enforcing its parking laws, which let trucks park for limited times on service calls.

First, public safety departments, like any other police or security force, do not administer rules or penalties, they merely enforce them.

The alternative-that the software was correct, and that he was merely enforcing his own expectations on it-was too unnerving to consider.

Rather than practicing mind control, we prefer to think of what we do to your memories as merely enforcing a long period of communications blackout.

Government agencies, which are under increasing financial pressure themselves, say they are merely enforcing rules on use of public money and nonprofit assets.

Let us drop the cliché that the French were merely enforcing German policies against the Jews.

City officials said they were merely enforcing an existing law, which prevents organized groups from demonstrating while wearing masks.