How to Use enactment in a Sentence

enactment

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  • Instead of four years of protection, the time frame would be just one year after enactment and plaintiffs would be allowed to file lawsuits in state courts.
    — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Following the enactment of partial ban on asylum claims in early June, unlawful border crossings have fallen to and remain at a four-year-low.
    — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Instead of going along with Bernie Sanders’ bullying, Democrats and the media should insist on the enactment of this basic reform.
    — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • One bright spot was enactment in September of a California law that prevents collectors from emptying your bank account.
    — David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Since the enactment of the December signing period, no Power 5 team has ever gone into early signing day without a full-time head coach.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The enactment of this law is a big deal on both sides of the aisle.
    — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 2 July 2021
  • The strongest scene in the movie is the enactment, in flashback, of that fight.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
  • On the policy side, Wahl said the enactment this spring of the Sgt.
    — al, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The change must be made within 18 months of the bill's enactment.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But enactment of civil rights laws didn’t mean the end of the fight.
    — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
  • In my mind, the shoes and the coats are a masquerade, an enactment.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The two plans would have the state draw on its rainy day funds until the tax's enactment.
    — Tim Gruver, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Meta and TikTok declined to comment on the enactment of the new law.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The House is expected to vote on – and pass – a red flag bill in the next two weeks, leaving enactment up to the Senate.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 31 May 2022
  • This has been the longest stretch of no-cost-growth since at least 1965 and the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid.
    — Ezekiel J. Emanuel, STAT, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Bear in mind that some of the proposals used the date of enactment as the effective date for the new harsh rules proposed.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • There have been many modifications to the Brown Act in the decades since its enactment.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Give a listen here, but don't be shocked by the masterful Trumpy enactment.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Companies would have a year from the enactment of the legislation to comply with the new rules.
    — Keach Hagey, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • The bill also calls for a report on progress 15 months after enactment.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
  • Repaying the debt over 37 years would require enactment of a 2.8-mill tax.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
  • After many years of failing even to make it out of committee, the bill came within a whisker of enactment last year.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Higher revenues after enactment of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The thrift store freeze has been renewed every six months since its initial enactment.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 23 July 2021
  • The second group left between the enactment of those laws and Kristallnacht, in November 1938.
    — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The holiday is observed on the first Monday of the month, which has always been the case since the holiday’s enactment by the United States Congress in 1894.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2023
  • While there are many steps that must take place between the agreement on a framework and the enactment of a law, this deal gives the lie to the notion that the power of the gun lobby can never be checked.
    — Kris Brown, CNN, 14 June 2022
  • Whoa, the retort goes, the enactment of AI laws is more akin to making sure that there aren’t any unnecessary roadblocks ahead of the runner.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • This year marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX’s enactment.
    — Angela Ruggiero, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2022
  • The lawsuit and the enactment of the state’s new ban comes on the heels of two mass shootings in New York and Texas that claimed 31 lives and left the country reeling over holes in gun-control laws and the limits of laws on the books.
    — Ovetta Wiggins, Washington Post, 31 May 2022

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