Adolat assumed civil authority in Namangan and quickly established a degree of order and security through the imposition of Sharia Law, which was ruthlessly enforced by Adolat's vigilante cadres.

It was enforced ruthlessly in all spheres of artistic endeavour.

The levies were enforced ruthlessly.

One-baby-per-family was almost a law in the PRC, and like most laws in a communist state, that one was ruthlessly enforced.

Since the price collapse of 1998, the country's oil minister has ruthlessly enforced discipline within OPEC, taking the reins of the oil cartel and setting a more active policy.

Draconian measures which had been ruthlessly enforced.

Everyone was masked and gloved, and disinfection procedures were ruthlessly enforced.

No-smoking signs had appeared magically one night in a grab bag of spaces where smoking was traditionally allowed, and the ship's master-at-arms force had ruthlessly enforced the prohibition.

Though you should not count on them to inform-it is the one thing, the one guild rule, that is ruthlessly enforced.

Æthelred's government produced extensive legislation, which he "ruthlessly enforced."