Once enacted, it will be impossible to reverse the damage and it will seal the fate of the NHS.
When Social Security was enacted, it was assumed that once old age set in, illness and disability would follow.
Opponents of recognizing a constitutional right to gay marriage argue that once a principle is enacted, it forever retains its original unwritten baggage.
And once the repeal is enacted, it prevents a federal agency from ever putting in a new regulation (unless a new Congress orders it to, of course).
Although greater separation of powers makes legislation more difficult to enact, it also makes legislation, once enacted, more difficult to repeal.
Mr. Bush will have to decide soon whether to try for his $1.3 trillion, 10-year tax cut all at once or try to enact it piecemeal.
To begin with, the most obvious example, a bill passed by the 105th House that is still pending in the 105th Senate on Jan . 3cannot be enacted into law unless it once again is approved by the 106th House of Representatives.
When I asked George about Operation Thetis, he told me that it had been enacted only once. .
This would be a bad idea because permanent tax breaks are hard to eliminate once enacted, and it is not clear that we can afford more tax giveaways over the long term, especially if the president-elect is serious about other campaign promises to expand access to health care and invest more in infrastructure and green technology".
Once a threat is enacted, however, it loses its coercive power.
She said a referendum could be possible while the NI executive was not functioning, with a change enacted once a deal was reached.
