enactment
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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
The judges chronicle the legislative and economic history that led to Section 122’s enactment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The bond market appears unworried about the next decade, even as tariff’s enactment and now reversal heightens global trade uncertainty.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
This enactment of defeat depressed everyone’s spirits further.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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 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
He returned to America in 1779, and 1784 the enactments against him in Massachusetts were repealed, and he took possession of his patrimony.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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