Sentence examples for enacting something from inspiring English sources

But they also know that their best chance of averting an even worse fate for them lies in enacting something like the cuts that Mr Brown has proposed, and then persuading voters to extend the taxes.

The featured speaker will be Mr. Lindsey, whose presence, Mr. Armey said, should be a clear signal that the administration takes overhauling the tax system seriously and that the prospects for enacting something are good.

The Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn, who followed the A.C.A. legislation closely, wrote this week that, given the power that these groups wield in Washington, "enacting something as sweeping as the Sanders plan would be basically impossible, at least for the time being".

But if passing such relatively moderate reforms was a struggle at the peak of progressive power in 2009, with Democratic majorities in both houses and a president who'd just won a convincing presidential election, enacting something as sweeping as the Sanders plan would be basically impossible, at least for the time being.

Although I concede that Stiglitz's remedies have a better chance than Thomas Piketty's call for a global wealth tax, if only because enacting something within the confines of a nation-state seems perhaps more feasible, if extremely unlikely given the current political environment, than transcending international borders into the realm where capital rules unrestrained.

"But I came to realize that simply re-enacting something of the time may seem real enough but may not necessarily be beautiful".

De Palma cites this sequence as a progenitor of reality television, and compares it, rather unexpectedly, to a current TV staple: "It's no different to Survivor today, where you see two people on the beach whispering to each other, except we know they're surrounded by a camera crew and re-enacting something that they said earlier.

A Republican President would have enacted something very similar, no matter the partisan lineup in Congress.

"It's symbolic when you enact something that excludes alcohol from the reservation.

Yes, please raise the minimum wage, enact something like the Equal Rights Amendment and strengthen unions.

At one point a scroll unrolled to reveal dancers using their bodies as brushes to enact something resembling living calligraphy.