Sentence examples for before enactment from inspiring English sources

(His early convictions were before enactment of the three-strike law).

In the six months before enactment, an average of 19 percent of eligible workers enrolled each month.

Before enactment of that provision, if a Cayman Islands hedge fund owned an American stock that paid dividends, a tax would normally be withheld when the dividend was paid.

This statistic demonstrates, however, that before enactment of the statute, a quarter of malpractice claims were so frivolous that even the most dishonorable hired guns would not testify to the validity of these claims.

"The defenders of partial-birth abortion suffered another big setback today as our side, the backers of the bill, overcame one of the final remaining hurdles before enactment," said Douglas Johnson, a spokesman for the National Right to Life Committee.

And sure enough, just 96 hours later, Democrats and Mr. Schwarzenegger's fellow Republicans are already in agreement: his first big idea of his second term — a sweeping plan unveiled Monday to assure health care to all Californians — is promising and ambitious, but faces a long, hard fight before enactment.

Although every state, excluding Wyoming and South Dakota, chose to preserve Medicaid coverage for immigrants who were eligible before the enactment of PRWORA (i.e., entering the United States before August 22 , 1996, states' decisions varied on whether to implement the 5-year bar on Medicaid eligibility for qualified immigrants after the enactment of PRWORA.

And, of course, there was a spike in gun sales before the enactment of the law.

The employment rate of these elderly workers is at its highest since May 1965 — before the enactment of Medicare.

In September the court ruled that the country's nine provincial councils needed to approve the bill before its enactment.

Brennan has raised the possibility that the turnback operations themselves were unlawful before the enactment of the Maritime Powers Act.