Sentence examples for seeking to enact from inspiring English sources

The state legislation Mr. Malloy proposed is similar to what the Obama administration is seeking to enact nationally.

Still reeling from the collapse of a property market bubble, Spain is seeking to enact austerity measures to restore government finances, even as it grapples with an unemployment rate of 24.4 percent.

Mr. Cuomo and legislative leaders are seeking to enact what would be the earliest state budget in decades, and the third consecutive spending plan to be approved by the April 1 deadline.

"This applied whether a government was seeking to enact a "punitive" policies or prone to appointing judges who were "soft touches, with a more left view view of law and order", Potts said.

Mr. Pacelle said that the activists' strategy of seeking to enact changes through ballot initiatives had limits because some of the biggest egg-producing states, including Iowa and Indiana, did not have a mechanism to submit proposed laws directly to voters.

And seeking to enact a pivot to become a multi-modal transport platform — to be able to offer cities something other than just more traffic and congestion on already clogged and polluted roads.

But what Davis achieved was larger even than the change in the law she sought to enact.

So where does this leave the government's localism agenda, and those who would seek to enact it?

Duke split with much of its industry to support the "cap and trade" system that House Democrats unsuccessfully sought to enact early in Mr. Obama's term.

Since then, some members of Congress have sought to enact domestic military detention into law, but their effort to do so in last year's Defense Act failed.

His staff have churned out draft laws as he seeks to enact a battery of G20 commitments by the end of his term in 2014.