Sentence examples for enacted over from inspiring English sources

Davis had innumerable troubles during his presidency, including a squabbling Congress, a dissident vice president, and the constant opposition of extreme states' rights advocates, who objected vigorously to the conscription law he had enacted over much opposition in 1862.

Teacher tenure has been controversial since the first tenure provisions were enacted over a century ago.

However, disease outcomes are mediated by complex chains of both healthy and interfering behaviors enacted over extended periods of time.

Dimon's biggest quarrel with Dodd-Frank, the financial-reform legislation enacted over the summer, was that it erected new walls.

The War Powers Resolution, a Vietnam-era law enacted over President Richard M. Nixon's veto, does not define "hostilities".

The measure is the fourth bill to be enacted over the president's veto, and two of those were farm bills.

The new law, enacted over the fierce objections of the White House, immediately alters the legal landscape.

In each a fragment of an ugly tale of bathroom-sex-for-sale is enacted over about 20 minutes.

The new death duties were enacted over the opposition of Rosebery and Gladstone, who believed that easily increased taxes would encourage frivolous governmental spending.

The law was enacted over a decade ago; the F.T.C. recently proposed changes to the statute, to reflect advances in smartphone and geolocation technology.

We see this pattern being re-enacted over and over, to the present debate on Synthetic Biology and synthetic genomes.