What's the difference between alimony and enforce?

Alimony


Definition:

  • (n.) Maintenance; means of living.
  • (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of this legal status insemination child or his parents cannot demand alimony from the sperm donor or the inseminator.
  • (2) Most men who divorce or separate are immediately better off because they retain most of their labor incomes, typically do not pay large amounts of alimony and child support to their ex-wives, and no longer have to provide for the level of needs associated with their former families.
  • (3) The ‘divorce’ bill Until recently, the size of the European alimony request was the subject of conjecture.
  • (4) Alimony and child support are the principal mechanisms for transfers from the ex-husband to the ex-wife, but payments are rarely frequent or sizeable enough to make up for an appreciable amount of the labor income lost through the departure of the ex-husband.
  • (5) Much of what we now know about Nancy is none of our business: the square footage of her house, the size of her alimony payments.
  • (6) Eighteen months later, after countless hours in police stations and waiting for judges who tried to duck the case, Lee won in court , the judge granting her a divorce and ordering her husband pay $1.9m in alimony and compensation.
  • (7) It had been an acrimonious split – and Brown ended up paying him £1.25m alimony.
  • (8) Three months later – even after all the warnings from the European leaders soon to be suing us for alimony, the anxiety from business associations and the repeated broadsides from financial markets – delusional thinking remains rife.
  • (9) In the case of a single woman, or a married women who decided on AID without the husband's consent, financial support should perhaps be offered by the Alimony Fund if the mother has insufficient means.
  • (10) Divorce under Islamic law also affects the wife's entitlement to alimony, custody of children, and who keeps the family house.

Enforce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put force upon; to force; to constrain; to compel; as, to enforce obedience to commands.
  • (v. t.) To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage.
  • (v. t.) To put in motion or action by violence; to drive.
  • (v. t.) To give force to; to strengthen; to invigorate; to urge with energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests.
  • (v. t.) To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.
  • (v. t.) To urge; to ply hard; to lay much stress upon.
  • (v. i.) To attempt by force.
  • (v. i.) To prove; to evince.
  • (v. i.) To strengthen; to grow strong.
  • (n.) Force; strength; power.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (2) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
  • (3) I have heard from other workers that the list has also been provided to the law enforcement authorities,” Gain says.
  • (4) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
  • (5) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
  • (6) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
  • (7) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
  • (8) After sterilisation of mentally diseased patients had been legally enforced and finances were restricted, family care stagnated, promoting instead a type of family care that was independent of psychiatric hospitals and was carried out on a "district" basis.
  • (9) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
  • (10) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
  • (11) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
  • (12) What is needed is decisive action, and a clear and unequivocal policy on maintaining and fully enforcing UN sanctions against the Eritrean regime.
  • (13) Its investigations have also resulted in 107 officials in the law enforcement agencies being convicted.
  • (14) Once again, there was no evidence of any law enforcement presence on or near the refuge.
  • (15) It has to come from a variety of different enforcement actions, and then the company needs to do the right thing,” she said.
  • (16) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
  • (17) "Some have problems in enforcing their transfer pricing regimes due to gaps in the law, weak or no regulations and guidelines for companies, and limited technical capacity to carry out transfer pricing risk assessment and transfer pricing audits, and to negotiate transfer pricing adjustments with multinational companies."
  • (18) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
  • (19) This brief outline of optical identification potentials alerts law enforcement agencies to the early developments in the field.
  • (20) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.