Sentence examples for intend to enact from inspiring English sources

As president, I intend to enact a cap-and-trade system that will dramatically reduce our carbon emissions.

The United States trade representative, Ron Kirk, pressed for more bilateral talks in which countries provide details of how they intend to enact agreements.

As President Obama and Chinese leaders have signaled that they intend to enact policies to decrease their emissions levels in the coming years, cooperation from India on a global climate treaty is crucial.

As my colleague James McAuley reported, Orban and his allies intend to enact new legislation to crack down on civil-society groups it deems hostile to the government's interests.

CUNY intends to enact the tougher standards at four colleges -- Hunter, Queens, Baruch and Brooklyn -- in September 1999.

And this comes soon after a cynical manoeuvre by Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, who in April contrived to give the misleading impression that Congress intended to enact immigration reform before the end of this year.

It is unlikely that Congress intended to enact a forfeiture provision that provided an incentive for activity of this kind while authorizing forfeiture of an interest of little worth in a bankrupt shell.

The government has said it intends to enact the transparency rules in the legislation via statutory instrument, which allow the provisions of an act of parliament to come into force or be altered without parliament having to debate them.

The recommendations incorporate good precedents practised in other countries and are not more liberal than, for example, those prevailing in Britain.In accepting BAC's recommendations, the government intends to enact legislation where all human stem-cell research conducted in Singapore will have to be approved, licensed and closely monitored by the Ministry of Health.

'But in construing a statute we are not always confined to a literal reading, and may consider its object and purpose, the things with which it is dealing, and the condition of affairs which led to its enactment, so as to effectuate rather than destroy the spirit and force of the law which the legislature intended to enact.

[T]o select casual statements from floor debates, not always distinguished for candor or accuracy, as a basis for making up our minds what law Congress intended to enact is to substitute ourselves for the Congress in one of its important functions". Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp., 341 U.S. 384, 395-396, 71 S.Ct.