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enshrine

[en-shrahyn] / ɛnˈʃraɪn /


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She said if Stormont is serious about Bengoa's report and improving the health care system they "must enshrine this absolute right in law" for patients to designate an essential family carer.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Yes, and the risk is that government regulation would enshrine a testing oligopoly that reduces the incentives for due diligence by evaluators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

You may not get everything you want, but we should all agree that the civil rights and liberties the founding fathers sought to enshrine in our Constitution must be defended.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Giving Americans access to high-quality, low-cost cars would enshrine him as a champion for struggling American households.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Vietnam's constitution enshrines a right to religious freedom, but the government tightly regulates religious organisations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

The Home Rule Act enshrines these rights into federal statute.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025

It also enshrines separation of powers and judicial independence, and guarantees women's rights, freedom of expression and media freedom.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025

The human rights declaration, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in Paris on December 10, 1948, enshrines a standard for human rights and freedoms for all people.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

At the same time each comedy enshrines such penetrating reflections on mysterious problems of life as mark the stage of maturity in the growth of the author’s intellect. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

The American Civil Liberties Union applauded the move over a practice it said conlifted with "human dignity, fairness, and the values enshrined in our Constitution."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Like when he somehow leapfrogged a defender while flying backward, a feat enshrined on the cover of the Madden NFL videogame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

But he said "children cannot face more delays, so Government must act swiftly and ensure these measures are enshrined in law at the earliest opportunity".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

We all grasp what it means to be an American and how that is enshrined in the Constitution.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

It was enshrined in the county library, where the 235-page history that had been written about Permian football was more detailed than any of the histories about the town itself.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

Yousef, whose community strongly promotes gender equality, said she also wants to work on "defending women's rights and enshrining them in the country's constitution".

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that AI risked enshrining “an anti-human vision,” replacing jobs with dehumanizing work and consuming vast amounts of water and energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Blumenfield wants to protect Executive Directive 1, which was issued by Bass shortly after she declared the local emergency, by enshrining its provisions into city law.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

Economist Ananish Chaudhuri said the conversation about enshrining the Treaty principles in law was needed "if New Zealand is to remain a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural nation".

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Three years had scarcely passed since His baptism when the gathering storm outbroke, and the human body of Jesus paid the penalty for enshrining the glorious Presence of a Teacher more than man.

From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Annie Wood Besant


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