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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 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

To make that enactment concrete, Rosenzweig founded a pioneering adult-education institute.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

With this enactment Millet hoped to carry visitors “back 400 years”—despite the steam tugboats that would nudge the Spanish ships toward shore.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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 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

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

We brought evidence yesterday to show that the suppression of objections to the Scriptures by penal enactments is tyrannical, unjust, and absurd, and that the law is partially administered.

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington




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