Sentence examples for it was first enacted from inspiring English sources

When it was first enacted, critics claim, the law was designed to prosecute acts by violent third parties such as abusive boyfriends.

When it was first enacted, he said, black voter registration stood at 6.4 percent in Mississippi, and the gap between black and white registration rates was more than 60 percentage points.

There is a fundamental difference on this issue in this election, which offers the country the most critical choice on Social Security since it was first enacted in 1935.

"There is a fundamental difference on this issue in this election," Mr. Gore said, "which offers the country the most critical choice on Social Security since it was first enacted in 1935".

Rick Hasen, an election law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a supporter of the Voting Rights Act, said that some Southern politicians saw such aggressive enforcement as proof that their sovereignty was being violated by a law that treats them as if they had not matured since it was first enacted in 1965.

"We can hardly be surprised when 10 years down the track it appears even more incomprehensible than I suspect it was to those parliamentarians whose unhappy lot was to scrutinize it at the time it was first enacted," he said.

The university's first Charter was granted in 1754 by King George II; however, its modern Charter was first enacted in 1787 and last amended in 1810 by the New York State Legislature.

When Social Security was first enacted, it had 42 workers to pay the taxes for the benefits of 1 retiree.

The federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act was first enacted in 1986 – long before the Internet as we know it today existed.

The plaintiffs stated it in the first line of their brief: "The America that has elected Barack Obama as its first African-American president is far different than when Section Five was first enacted in 1965".

According to Robert Willens, a corporate tax expert, this tax break was first enacted in 1997.