What's the difference between enforce and exert?

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.

Exert


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
  • (v. t.) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.
  • (v. t.) To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (2) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
  • (3) A complex of vitamins exerting a protective action on the system of coenzymic acetylation in the body have been tried.
  • (4) The photoinactivating effect of DMCT was also exerted upon other animal viruses tested, i.e.
  • (5) Both Diltiazem and Trifluoroperazin exerted a protective effect on the preservation of enzymatic activities and of ultrastructure in conditions of impaired calcium homeostasis.
  • (6) We have investigated the bacterial antagonism exerted in oral secretion by alpha-hemolytic streptococci against S. aureus and S. epidermidis.
  • (7) The hypothesis that monohydroxy bile acids exert their cholestatic and hepatotoxic effects via a sustained elevation of cytosolic [Ca2+] was tested in the isolated perfused rat liver.
  • (8) It is well established that the renal medulla exerts a potent endocrine-like antihypertensive action.
  • (9) (1) EXCP appears to be a more serious finding only in those higher risk individuals with either a positive EXECG or lower MAXRPP; (2) EXCP and its interactions may help discriminate between anginal and nonanginal, exertional chest pain, and (3) the contradictory results found when EXCP was allowed to interact may explain conflicting results in previous multivariate models regarding the predictive significance of EXCP.
  • (10) Pitch forward head movements exerted the strongest effect.
  • (11) Adenine sulfate, at the 0.01 mM level, was found to exert a significant protective effect.
  • (12) The effects exerted on the cervical spine by a traction of 150 N was studied by means of an improved radiographic technique.
  • (13) Furthermore, effector TH cells within the two compartments exert differential effector activities: splenic effector TH cells induce B cells to both proliferation and maturation, while thymic effector TH cells are defective in activating B-cell maturation.
  • (14) None of the treatments exerted any effect on fasting or one-hour insulin levels.
  • (15) These data support the conclusion that there are mechanisms intrinsic to each tissue which exert a degree of control during growth over its chemical composition; therefore, growth itself can be considered an intrinsic regulatory mechanism.
  • (16) It is concluded that ACh exerts a direct, excitatory action on geniculate neurons.
  • (17) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
  • (18) This residue is thus non-essential for cardiotoxin to exert its biological action.
  • (19) 4-S-Cysteinylphenol (4-CP) has been shown to exert selective toxicity to melanocytes, causing growth inhibition of experimental malignant melanoma.
  • (20) A clear structure-mutagenicity relationship was observed in a series of aporphine alkaloids (aporphine, dehydroaporphine, 7-oxoaporphine and 4,5-dioxoaporphine), and 10,11-non-substituted aporphines were suggested to exert their mutagenicity through metabolic activation of the 10,11 positions, possibly as the 10,11-epoxides.