For one thing, the proposal confirms that the country's finances will be in a wretched state once the G.O.P.'s recent tax-cut bill is fully enacted.
If the proposed Medicaid changes are fully enacted, they will knock many millions of needy people off the federal program's rolls.
(It was left to Friends of the Earth to issue a cautionary note, warning that the measures agreed upon, even if they are fully enacted, would be insufficient to prevent global warming).
Now, if Putin's diplomatic cuts are fully enacted, it will be Russians who will likely suffer the most, both in terms of lost jobs and difficulty in visiting the United States, especially on business, when trips can materialize quickly.
But if Mr. Gates's sweeping plan is fully enacted, none of the armed services or Pentagon civilian agencies and directorates would be immune from the pain of annual cost-cutting, which would become institutionalized across the Defense Department.
If Bush's economic agenda was fully enacted, the vast bulk of these payments wouldn't be taxed at all, and labor would end up shouldering practically the entire burden of financing the federal government.
If Mr. Obama's pre-crisis proposals were fully enacted, the group reported, they would add $286 billion to the annual deficit by the last budget of the next presidential term, that of 2013.
Far from putting forward a "recovery plan," Romney remains tied to a grab bag of proposals that won't do anything to promote spending and job creation if they are fully enacted, and which could well tip the economy into another outright slump.
The thawing of relations made the deal between Iran and the world's six major powers over Iran's nucelar programme, possible – but fears remain that hardliners in Tehran and Washington, especially in the US congress, could jeopardise it before it is fully enacted.
"The [state marijuana legalization] laws are brand new, and haven't been fully enacted yet," he said.
