enactment
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New York state has required both public and private universities to disclose foreign funds since 1984, prior to the enactment of federal Section 117 regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
And that’s his persistent campaign to preserve Social Security — indeed, to enhance it so it serves today’s workers as well or better than it has served Americans since its enactment in 1935.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
“They’re not taking into account all the legislative history and statements made at the time of the enactment of Dodd-Frank.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
The next play we did for assembly was an enactment, totally adapted by Mrs. Finley, I believe, of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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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
The tales that precede his are choreographic enactments of song interpretations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 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 judiciary doesn’t sit as a roving commission to rule on the legality of either Congress’s enactments or the executive’s implementation of those enactments,” U.S. solicitor general Elizabeth B. Prelogar pointed out.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
Schedules of existing and corresponding rights and of enactments repealed are appended to the bill.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker
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