Sentence examples for enacting from inspiring English sources

The word "enacting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to talk about bringing laws, rules, or plans into effect. For example: The government is enacting new regulations to reduce air pollution.

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enacting

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Present participle of enact

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They're so well matched, in fact, that they're probably enacting a rom-com montage together as we speak; skipping through meadows, having pillow fights with sacks of money, tying women to trainlines and then twirling their moustaches and then high-fiving each other.

Niyazov ensured that gas-rich Turkmenistan remained one of the most isolated countries in the world, ensuring no free media, allowing little foreign travel and enacting a series of decrees that renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and members of his family.

Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, confirmed that the SNP's 56 MPs at Westminster would seek to amend the legislation enacting the EU referendum to ensure that a UK withdrawal from the EU would have to be approved by all four constituent parts of the UK.

BG It would have been nice if the unlikely League One table-toppers, Leyton Orient, were not so depleted as they head to Championship strugglers Yeovil Town, especially as Russell Slade would no doubt savour a win at a club where he achieved feats similar to the one he is enacting at Orient before being sacked amid acrimony in 2009.

"If Labour is enacting a 35 per cent strategy, hoping to sneak into power with just 35 per cent of the vote, the Liberal Democrats are going for a 10 per cent strategy to avoid annihilation at the next election.

"In enacting the Controlled Substances Act, Congress determined that marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance," Chitre said.

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One guy, sweaty and breathless, with his helmet tucked under his arm, was swishing his baton through the air, re-enacting his best shots.

Yes, the "combatants" in this conflict were re-enacting struggles from another era – albeit one that belonged to the piratical adventures of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The bill the House is taking up today liberates Congress from re-enacting the Hyde Amendment every year as a rider on the appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services; it codifies in perpetuity the ban on the use of federal monies for abortion.

After undergoing the humiliation of having their heads shaved they were paraded through the streets, occasionally to the sound of drums, as if France was re-enacting the Reign of Terror in the French revolution.

Hopes of re-enacting the scene have grown on news that Turkey's pious prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plans to lead prayers in the building to mark the 561st anniversary.Mr Erdogan's advisers dismiss the story as "fantasy".

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