enactment
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New York state has required both public and private universities to disclose foreign funds since 1984, prior to the enactment of federal Section 117 regulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
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
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
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Originalism looks only to the past meaning of the Constitution at the time of the founding or at subsequent enactments.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
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
By a series of legislative enactments and decisions of courts, special privileges have been conferred upon railroad companies antagonistic to, and destructive of, the rights of the people.
From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
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