Sentence examples for enactments are from inspiring English sources

There is a practice of long standing for belligerents, at the outbreak of war, to enact prize law through statutory legislation; such enactments are presumed to be declaratory of international law but are, in any event, binding on the courts.

If there are three ways that Prentice might dress Anthony in the morning, and three ways that Speight might humiliate Glenda sexually, then the exchange begins to look like a ritual, a pattern, on which these enactments are variations.

The Framework (NRC [2012]) points out, however, that such sense-making enactments are missing in our current K-12 science programs.

Principles of legal interpretation (for example, a legal requirement that vague criminal enactments are to be interpreted as applying only in clear cases) may make the legal effect of the use of a word more precise than its ordinary effect.

Stein argues that enactments are acts carried out in the name of a state: it is via the state's sovereignty that the enactments performed by individuals receive the authority they must have in order to be effective.

While these enactments are necessarily different since they are an integral part of the practices in which they occur, they are still connected in different ways as part of a phenomenon (Mol 2002).

The notion that the executive can unilaterally "trump" legislative enactments is anathema to the Constitution.

His fiscal and agrarian enactments were in line with the practices of the Han dynasty or Confucian precepts.

Showing that bioinformatics is not neutral in these enactments is important.

In Hamilton's view, judicial authority to "void" unconstitutional government enactments is derived from the fact that only enactments that are consistent with the Constitution are laws at all.

Those enactments were followed by the creation of a vibrant middle class, sustained economic growth and a fairer distribution of the fruits of that economic growth.