The relevant legislation – the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the US and the European Union's copyright directive are the two currently being discussed most – was enacted in 1998 and 2001 respectively.
A generation later, in 1968, the New York Times columnist C. L. Sulzberger resuscitated the word in writing of the mysterious out-the-window death of the Czech patriot Jan Masaryk: "It was widely recalled that murder by defenestration had been most famously enacted in that same city of Prague in 1618, starting the Thirty Years' War".
Most programs were enacted in the past two years, and the data are still building.
Legislators have refused to even consider tort reforms that have been enacted in most other states to protect municipalities.
Although limited to the first $18,000, the cost-of-living adjustment was the most expensive pension enhancement enacted in recent memory in New York, according to the Independent Budget Office.
Since the 19th century legislation has been enacted in most countries to safeguard the public interest in the movement of goods by road, railway, and inland waterway.
The American Law Institute's Model Penal Code stimulated a thorough reexamination of both federal and state criminal law, and new codes were enacted in most of the states.
The stimulus packages enacted in most countries have favored financial bailouts and tax cuts instead of job creation and social protection.
WASHINGTON -- With the strokes of 20 pens, President Obama signed his landmark health care overhaul -- the most expansive social legislation enacted in decades -- into law on Tuesday, saying it enshrines "the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care".
The obligation to return them to their owners was enshrined in the Constitution, then further codified in 1793, and in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — which, as Foner notes, was among the most draconian laws ever enacted in this nation.
