How to Use enactment in a Sentence

enactment

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Since their enactment, the UN has made great efforts in working toward achieving these goals.
    George Sifakis, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • There are re-enactments that blur lines of fact and fiction in ways that are more distracting than enriching.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • After all, the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Job Act significantly overhauled the tax system in 2017.
    David Herzig, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • But the enactment of the state’s film production tax credit in 2004 was the true catalyst for production growth.
    Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Durbin, who holds the post of Majority Whip, engineered the enactment of a measure that slashed debit-card fees a decade ago.
    James Lardner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Those efforts came to fruition in 2022 with the final enactment of the dam removal agreement that paved the way for the nation's largest-ever dam deconstruction.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
  • The differing treatment methods have led to different enactment dates.
    Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2024

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