enacting

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By enacting thresholds and country lists into statute, the bill limits the president’s ability to adapt export controls as tech and alliances evolve.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

They do so by enacting new constitutional text via Article 5.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Even those efforts however suggest waiting years until a surplus had been achieved, before enacting reform.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Finance ministers from Germany, France and other top economies simultaneously declared the “urgent necessity” of enacting what’s now called the Savings and Investment Union.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Luckily, she had lost her voice, and she could only smile and shrug and wave her arms gracefully, like fronds, as the children tried to guess what sort of charade she was enacting.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood