Thus both the House and Senate bills would strengthen child-support enforcement, on the principle that responsibility for child care rests first with parents.

Statute may also strengthen enforcement of consumer protection by providing criminal or regulatory sanctions.

Educational programs are instrumental in our efforts to strengthen intellectual property protection and enforcement worldwide.

But he also proposed to strengthen enforcement by creating an identification card system for foreign workers that would include digitized fingerprints.

But Major Sitler promised a number of steps to strengthen enforcement.

The main concentration of the project is strengthening national legislation, policy planning and enforcement, cooperation and training.

But Taiwan, which American officials credit with significant efforts to strengthen enforcement, was expected by most companies to show the most improvement, the commission said.

Dr. Bowen said the proposed rules would strengthen enforcement of the statutory prohibition on abortion.

Among other things, it would strengthen enforcement of the city's ethics laws, increasing the maximum penalty to $25,000 from $10,000.

We're going to strengthen enforcement of our immigration laws within our country.