verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
enact legislation formal (= make it into a law )
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Much legislation has been enacted to control pollution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
recently
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Several major law firms have recently enacted codes of conduct to delineate appropriate behavior and to ward off official complaints.
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Congress recently enacted restrictions on such lawsuits, over the veto of President Clinton.
■ NOUN
act
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Thus the 1893 Act remained largely in the form in which it was originally enacted .
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In 1902 the Conservatives enacted an important Education Act .
congress
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In the wake of the Wall Street Crash Congress enacted a plethora of legislation aimed at ensuring fair and orderly markets.
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By 1917 all the pieces needed for Congress to enact legislation regarding leprosy were set in place.
government
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The leader then forms a government that proceeds to enact its program into law.
law
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It is the function of the courts to administer the laws which Parliament has enacted .
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Several major law firms have recently enacted codes of conduct to delineate appropriate behavior and to ward off official complaints.
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New laws have been enacted to protect women's rights.
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Much fund-raising today is in violation of one or more of the many campaign finance laws enacted by Congress since 1883.
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Those laws which are enacted by Parliament are known as statutory laws or legislation.
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It was a law enacted in 1907 that forbade political contributions from corporate funds.
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The Basic Law will still be enacted , promising a panoply of rights and freedoms for 50 years beyond 1997.
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When most criminal abortion laws were first enacted , the procedure was a hazardous one for the woman.
legislation
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In the wake of the Wall Street Crash Congress enacted a plethora of legislation aimed at ensuring fair and orderly markets.
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Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas.
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Last month, we enacted legislation to allow civil marriage ceremonies for domestic partners in San Francisco.
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Northern states did not enact legislation prohibiting discussion of slavery, but mob violence often awaited antislavery spokesmen.
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He knows Clinton will not propose and Congress will not enact legislation to seriously weaken provisions of the new law.
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By 1917 all the pieces needed for Congress to enact legislation regarding leprosy were set in place.
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States in these areas began enacting legislation to prevent the entry of free blacks within their borders.
legislature
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Neither will this legislature enact taxes that some say are necessary to pay for better education.
measure
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Over the years since union, there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union.
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After becoming president, Clinton was praised for pledging to enact a measure to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military.
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From Los Angeles to Athens, city authorities have tried to enact measures to limit exhaust emissions.
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Congress has helped make the odds by enacting measure after measure designed to keep incumbents in office.
parliament
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The law, as I have said, is to be found in the words in which Parliament has enacted .
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All your pressure groups and activists are fine and necessary, but it is in parliament that legislation is enacted and changed.
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Over the years since union, there have been innumerable instances of Parliament enacting measures which conflict with the terms of union.
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It is the function of the courts to administer the laws which Parliament has enacted .
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Between them, Parliament and the King enacted , in the form of statutes, the highest laws of the realm.
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Statute law consists of the words that Parliament has enacted .
policy
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The effect of such formulations on those who enacted education policy is difficult to estimate.
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Assume that you are smart enough to decide which candidate will actually enact policies that benefit you.
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He enacted a policy of peculiar ugliness over the attempt to plant a forest of crosses at the very gates of Auschwitz.
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His main interest appeared to be keeping a grip on the speakership, not enacting policy .
program
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And it has enacted an array of programs that further penalize women who try to raise their children at home.
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The leader then forms a government that proceeds to enact its program into law.
reform
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Presidential decrees enacting reform Gorbachev used his emergency presidential powers to issue during October four decrees marking critical steps towards market reform.
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If the representatives of the people will not enact campaign finance reform now, then when?
scene
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It didn't matter to her that Timothy Gedge intended to enact monstrous scenes in a rectory garden.
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Teresa enacts seven scenes from her life.
state
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Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas.
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Now there is a patchwork of state legislation enacted to deal with the legal and ethical issues raised by genetic information.
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Some states have enacted such a restriction.
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Northern states did not enact legislation prohibiting discussion of slavery, but mob violence often awaited antislavery spokesmen.
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Some states already have enacted laws that impose civil liability for failure to report.
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In 1994, New Jersey became the first state to enact a community notification law.
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Many states present the enacted laws or state codes in searchable formats.
tax
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Neither will this legislature enact taxes that some say are necessary to pay for better education.
years
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Knapp said the first such law was enacted about two years ago by a community in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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Federal legislation banning narcotics had already been enacted three years earlier and the prohibition of alcohol was only two years away.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The characters wear colorful outfits and enact their scenes center stage.
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Under a new law, universities must enact smoke-free policies on their campuses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A discussion then occurs within the elite, to determine whether this policy should be enacted and how it should be implemented.
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Even Frederick Douglass's Paper enacted this synecdoche.
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It is the competence to recognize and enact the rules, procedures and forms of understanding of a particular cultural environment.
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It may not be long before more brutal solutions to this modern menace are enacted.
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The Basic Law will still be enacted, promising a panoply of rights and freedoms for 50 years beyond 1997.
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The immigrant-aid cutoff was controversial at the time the legislation was enacted.
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The necessary legislation has been enacted.
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They migrated to Montana, where legislators as recently as 1963 tried and failed to enact similar controls.