Sentence examples for enacted standards from inspiring English sources

The Desmond will also undergo a full seismic retrofit intended to meet recently enacted standards for earthquake safety.

This is of particular interest because some areas in the United States and in Europe are still out of compliance with enacted standards (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2004) or suggested guideline values (WHO Europe 2006).

For more on the differences between enacting standards as offences vs. defences, please see this article.

I know the intent: by enacting standards, we encourage teachers to teach better.

Congress grew frustrated over states' continued hesitancy to enact standards, and in 1987 passed amendments requiring rather than suggesting that states adopt numeric water quality standards.

As HUD noted in monitoring reports, the state did not enact standard procedures for how local governments should process applications and write contracts for projects — the result was bureaucratic chaos.

"In the transportation sector, electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight rail and conversion of on-road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.

In Colorado and Washington, lawmakers have enacted impairment standards for marijuana, similar to those that exist for alcohol.

Thirty-one states (and my city, the District of Columbia) have enacted energy standards for the power sector, increasing demand for renewables.

Or more simply put, "Why are these companies being subsidized by the federal government?" In addition to receiving funding, they are also the beneficiaries of exemptions from enacted environmental standards.

Hanger says Pennsylvania has enacted strict standards for design, construction, and materials used in gas wells, which became effective in February 2011.