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Flowersa Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Enforce
What is to enforce here?
"Air and naval strikes were also used to enforce the border between Gaza and Egypt, where a strategically significant road known as the Philadelphi route is located.
"Air and naval strikes were also used to enforce the border between Gaza and Egypt, where a strategically significant road known as the Philadelphi route is located.
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What are you reading? It sounds like some journalist swallowed an Army Field Manual. This "enforce" rings of military jargon, and it means to kill people who try to cross the border, or at least to make it clear that you will by demonstration.
- What are you reading?
- It sounds like some journalist swallowed an Army Field Manual.
- This "enforce" rings of military jargon, and it means to kill people who try to cross the border, or at least to make it clear that you will by demonstration.
- "Enforce" is properly said only of laws and the like.
- What is really being enforced is the restrictions on people's crossing the border.
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What are you reading? It sounds like some journalist swallowed an Army Field Manual. This "enforce" rings of military jargon, and it means to kill people who try to cross the border, or at least to make it clear that you will by demonstration. "Enforce" is properly said only of laws and the like. What is really being enforced is the restrictions on people's crossing the border.
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Hi, thanks for your great explanations Enoon! later I will add the link to another of my question regarding this
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