In Angel, for example, Darryl McDaniels of hip-hop act Run DMC recounts being told that he's adopted: "Right then and there, the whole world stopped [makes sound of screeching brakes]." There's something lovely about that unaffected, spontaneous sound effect that was once enacted live, now living on in print as a stage direction.
Some in the White House pointed out that DOMA, once enacted, would have no immediate practical effect on anyone — there were no state-sanctioned same-sex marriages then for the federal government to ignore.
However, the explanatory notes add: "Once enacted, [the bill] will ensure that any such decisions cannot be challenged on the grounds that the [back to work employment scheme] regulations were invalid … notwithstanding the court of appeal's judgment.
Once enacted, they tend to take on a life of their own.
She said a bill to address banks' bad debts, once enacted, would free up banking resources for more housing and other development projects that the government cannot afford.Mrs Arroyo urged Filipinos to stay with her as president: "Trust me.
Even the flimsiest resolutions, once enacted by Congress, are hard to challenge.
"Once enacted, these plain packaging laws will be the world's toughest laws on tobacco promotion".
Once enacted, the budget will be the latest in state history.
He finds that only certain kinds of work are seen as having the "philosophical underpinnings" that — once they are enacted theatrically — give manual laborers the intellectual aura of knowledge workers.
It is fair to say that, once she had re-enacted the incident, few believed that she could have inadvertently pressed the "record" button when a telephone call interrupted her transcription of the tape.
