Sentence examples for states enacted from inspiring English sources

In 2012 states enacted 43 such provisions.

Many states enacted similar tough-on-crime measures.

Southern states enacted laws that drew formal distinctions, and those distinctions oppressed blacks.

In the two years since the verdict half the states enacted cutbacks in the insanity defense.

About 20 other states enacted similar laws or are considering doing so, Maine officials said.

During the 1980s, for the most part, Australia's states enacted Gorton's call.

The United States enacted a substantially identical statute in 1790.

STARTING in the 1970s, lawmakers across the United States enacted punitive "lock 'em up" policies.

In 2000, the United States enacted an antitrafficking law and the United Nations adopted the Palermo Protocol.

During the Civil War the United States enacted an income tax that remained in effect from 1862 to 1872.

The United States enacted an estate tax in 1916, and when John D. Rockefeller, America's first billionaire, died in 1937, his estate paid 70 percent.