Sentence examples for step enacted from inspiring English sources

His major accomplishment as governor has been persuading the legislature to allow slot machines, a step, enacted in July, that he says could add $1 billion a year to state revenue and help reduce property taxes.

But now, a necessary first step — enacting legislation that would create a one-time shortened term and make an exception to a 10-year limit on the amount of time any person may serve as director — has been delayed by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, a libertarian-leaning Republican who was elected last year.

Congress and the president must take the next step: enacting strong climate and energy legislation.

We have slowly taken steps enact laws and regulations to eliminate the most egregious of these behaviors.

Australia and Germany want companies to publish reports on their pay gaps, and Iceland recently went a step further, enacting a measure that will force employers to prove they pay men and women equally — or face fines for every day they don't comply.

Even the F.B.I.'s Los Angeles office has said it has taken no precautions in response to the latest warning beyond steps already enacted.

The severity of the steps being enacted varies by country, as does the timing, but most of the measures center on freezing or cutting public-sector pay, increasing retirement ages and reversing temporary tax breaks and other cushions that were encouraged in 2008 and 2009 to help beat back the worst recession in decades.

Although subtle steps were enacted to encourage faunal recolonisation (e.g., nesting boxes, log piles), no further early-establishment procedures were implemented other than the attempted suppression of fire over the first 10 15 years post-rehabilitation and later the selective thinning of undesirable species.

In order to guarantee success in supporting new media endeavours, it is essential that the enablers to their success be identified and steps be enacted to implement them in this region.

The president, who is in London, issued a statement praising Congress for taking this first step in enacting his program.

The state took a major step toward enacting new abortion restrictions on Friday after a lawmaker cut short an attempt to stage a "citizen filibuster".