The defeat of the enabling legislation creates that space.
Which means that we have been assigned the precarious role of the enabling artist.
So "Man in White" elaborates on some of the enabling that kept him solvent and cosseted.
This is not science fiction; much of the enabling technology has started to trickle out of the laboratory.
That our Iraqi invasion was founded on opportunistic lies, that it was hungered for by its planners in advance of the enabling excuse of 9/11, is a well-delineated blot on American history.
This should not be a party political thing – rather, a royal commission could come up with a proposal for a new public health act, which would be of the enabling kind.
The greed of its perpetrators, and of the enabling politicians of both parties who took their cut before the wipeout, looks even uglier against the stark backdrop of those less well-connected Americans who are fighting our war.
He sums it up as "a contribution to the unfinishable project of waking to, and out of, the enabling constraints of everyday meaning, of linking our ordinary moments with their extraordinary origins".
Sajid Javid, who likewise came into politics after state education propelled him from a humble background into an impressive business career, will be responsible for relations with local authorities and isn't exactly a fan of the enabling state either.
Crucially, it would require its own positive account of the enabling role of the state that it aspires to govern (while no doubt differing from the centre left as to the scope and limits of its role).
And sometimes, to add to the problem, one of the enabling mutations of a cancer is of a gene involved in the DNA-repair mechanism, which a healthy cell would use to deal with mutations.
