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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

He was pointing out that it would take constant vigilance to fend off repeated attempts to chip away at the protections he helped enshrine in the Coastal Act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

In response, Hyundai’s union has made unprecedented demands seeking to enshrine job protections in the era of robots and AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

While no law explicitly enshrines a person's voice in Japan, the justice ministry published legally non-binding guidelines last month clarifying its protection under existing rights.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

In fact, Article IV of the treaty enshrines enrichment as an “inalienable right.”

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

It enshrines the commitment to uphold the Seven Principles of Public Life, and details "the overarching duty on Ministers to comply with the law and to protect the integrity of public life".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

The settlement agreement enshrines many of those provisions, but it gives the company three more years to close its wells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

Theognis enshrines his moral precepts in his elegies, and this was probably the custom of the rest; it is improbable that there ever existed a species of poetry made up entirely of successive gnomes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

Shaikh said they wanted to see the right to roam enshrined in the law as it was in Scotland when the Land Reform Act came into effect in 2005.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

But it is still a body of American citizens and, after the Progressive Era reforms enshrined in the 17th Amendment, elected by the people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

The words “Anaheim Angels” are now enshrined in California law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

He forfeited the deposit gladly and enshrined, as well he might, the originals in the Library.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

During the violence, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a decree enshrining the Kurds' national rights and recognising Kurdish as a national language, an unprecedented step since Syria's independence in 1946.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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

They assumed that Congress had wide discretion to restrict the removal of executive officers, enshrining that view into law through the creation of myriad independent agencies.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

Compilation enshrining Druidic thought, 332; Christian persons and episodes figure in, 333; extract from, in catechism form, 334, 335 Bardic differs from popular conception of Danaan deities, 104 Barrow, The River.

From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston


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