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• a  not enforceable; not capable of being brought about by compulsion
  an unenforceable law
  unenforceable reforms

• Other enthusiasts argue that laws banning possession of LSD would, under present circumstances, be as unenforceable as Prohibition.
• The sanctions against him became almost unenforceable.
• While acknowledging that the measure was only symbolic and unenforceable, activists and council members practically fell over each other to rail against the word's toxic effect.

• enforceable

News & Articles

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• Press: Idaho GOP to Consider Resolution to Nix Boise's, Other Cities' Add the Words Enforcement
  When Idaho Republicans convene their state GOP Central Committee meeting later today in Valley County, they'll be considering more than two dozen resolutions that include everything from abolishing daylight saving time, pushing back against Common Core standards, and even a measure that would make recent Add the Words legislation, passed in several Idaho cities, unenforceable. This morning, the ...
  June 14, 2013 - Boise Weekly
• Idaho Falls considers rule banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender
  Idaho Falls seeks to become the seventh city in the state passing anti-discrimination laws as a group of Republican lawmakers will try through the Legislature to render them unenforceable.
  June 14, 2013 - The Oregonian
• Racketeering law poorly written but still enforceable, Ohio Supreme Court rules
  Ohio’s Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law might be poorly written but not bad enough to be unenforceable. The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday upheld the 10-year mandatory sentence for those convicted of violating the RICO statute during the commission of a first-degree felony. In a 4-3 ruling, the court reversed a decision by the 9th District Court of Appeals and reinstated a 10 ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Columbus Dispatch

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in BP News
  He said the law had caused division and had placed "huge pressures on local law enforcement to enforce rules that ultimately are unenforceable."
• Charles Dunstone in Inquirer
  A last minute, unenforceable, untested, agreement on beef is not enough to satisfy Congress. The problem with this FTA has always been broader than beef -- it is the agreement's basic acquiescence to Korea's one-way street in manufacturing trade... Sander Levin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sander_M._Levin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFgeKtcU3t10Q-M63PNk0Oerq4Zhw Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/04/18/2008-04-18T171354Z_01_N18279813_RTRIDST_0_USA-KOREA-TRADE.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEBlKi0evenq7i-LM8rjlgC6Qi3RA Apr 18, 2008 104440 137886 unenforceable The clarification" that is being sought on the Act is to avoid "a situation where we invest tens of millions of pounds in new systems and processes only to find that the Act is unenforceable and the money wasted," according to Dunstone.