Sentence examples for avoid enacting from inspiring English sources

In one possible situation, the governor could find money for Mr. de Blasio's prekindergarten classes, but avoid enacting new taxes — depriving the mayor-elect of the potent political dividends that come with making the wealthy pay more.

As busy as the gun lobby is in promoting macho myths about self-defense — stand your ground and outshoot the bad guys — it is no less dedicated to spinning myths for lawmakers to use as excuses to avoid enacting laws to deal with the shooting sprees that regularly afflict the nation.

Republicans in the state legislature have been looking to avoid enacting some of the cuts proposed earlier this year by Gov. Scott Walker, a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

But it's a lot more useful to go out and create the political conditions that make it easier for your representatives to enact your idea than to avoid enacting it.

"And, overall, I think we were successful at mitigating cuts to services while maintaining programs". The budget relied on $1.44 million from a rainy-day fund and another $1.25 million in police and library money to bridge the anticipated gap, allowing fire officials to avoid enacting a temporary two-month station closure and freezing three firefighter positions.

"The decision below, unless promptly reversed, also would allow and encourage the types of 'abusive practices committed in private securities litigation' that Congress intended to avoid by enacting" securities litigation reform, the hedge funds said.

Also, New Jersey, instead of offering rebates, has a thriving market for Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, which enable owners of solar installations to sell their clean energy credits to utilities looking to avoid penalties enacted by the state for generators of "dirtier" energy.

By doing so, he said, the court invited the "controversy, conflict and chaos" that Congress meant to avoid when it enacted Section 5 in 1887, in response to the electoral deadlock in the Hayes-Tilden presidential election of 1876.

Nor am I convinced that she was above all driven by the desire to avoid being seen as enacting revenge justice on a rich white man (though it is surely the case that, as a black judge, she too was on trial).

Policies that were enacted to avoid racial conflict between blacks and whites mostly proved successful.

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, which exempts sovereign nations from litigation, was enacted to avoid this.