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enactment

[en-akt-muhnt] / ɛnˈækt mənt /




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Since the law’s enactment, Congress has provided funding for the national program.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The housing bill's quiet enactment would mark an unusual conclusion to months of cross-party negotiations, as a significant congressional accomplishment that the president declined to celebrate, but chose not to stop.

From Barron's Jul. 10, 2026

The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

To make that enactment concrete, Rosenzweig founded a pioneering adult-education institute.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

This enactment of defeat depressed everyone’s spirits further.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

You mentioned that other countries have done similar enactments.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

In general, that anxiety shows up in the defenses against it through a wide variety of hypermasculine poses, declarations and enactments.

From Salon Oct. 17, 2024

Such stories and dramatic enactments can bring shared attention to these kinds of challenges, and we know that shared attention is one mechanism that can help people cooperate and solve coordination dilemmas.

From Scientific American Oct. 20, 2023

“The Judicial Branch derives its legitimacy, not from following public opinion, but from deciding by its best lights whether legislative enactments of the popular branches of Government comport with the Constitution.”

From Washington Post Jul. 2, 2022

I know no other law on the subject but the moral law, which does not consist of arbitrary enactments and decrees, but is adapted to our condition as human beings.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll




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