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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

Yet the most exacting enactment of Rosenzweig’s theology was private, where truth flickers in the risky traffic between souls.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

Few criticisms of the legislation could be heard en route to enactment.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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 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

For example, one of the first significant congressional enactments was the Sedition Act of 1798, which basically made it a crime to criticize the government.

From Slate Oct. 27, 2020

Such things were winked at, in spite of penal enactments, in the case of some Catholics of high social standing, like Mr. Scharderlowe.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur




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