Sentence examples for enacted over a from inspiring English sources

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

This refers to legal provisions enacted over a decade with Democratic support that seek to prevent overspending by Congress by demanding that new tax cuts or spending be offset by new sources of revenue or savings.

The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state.

Roy and Hayley's love affair has been Corrie's take on a Burton and Taylor moment, as if enacted over a lager and lime in Napoleon's, the boozer on the corner of Bloom and Sackville Streets that has warmed and watered the city's real-time Hayleys since the 1960s.

My focus is, retrospectively, on the ways in which future-related aspirations are cultivated and tentatively enacted over a biographical continuum in which international migration marks a major discontinuity.

Sandtown-Winchester was made poor through a series of deliberate policies enacted over a century.

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.

What these ancient tragedies enact over and over again is not misfortune outside a character's control.

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

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.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or Coppa, was enacted over a decade ago, long before the advent of social media and smartphones.