And while pregnancy, the subject of Knisley's book, is not an illness, Knisley details the many junctures in her life in which pregnancy (first, to avoid it; later, to enact it; finally, to see it through) has made her, sometimes quite painfully, a medical patient.
Formally, the poem doesn't just reference Heraclitian flux, it enacts it through the deployment of juxtaposition of themes and images – and by constantly spiralling back upon itself.
Do not be afraid of your power to enact change through media, it is completely acceptable to be unapologetically Black.
("We've tried to fight Porky Pig wherever we can," Ahlbach said.) The organization also voiced its objections to a car commercial that joked about a stuttering parrot, and it helped spur Congress to enact National Stuttering Awareness Week (this year, it is May 8 through 14).
Mainers voted for the Medicaid expansion last year, making it the first state to enact the policy through direct voter action.
Once inaugurated, Trump moved quickly to enact changes through the use of executive orders.
Yet Republicans are threatening to trigger this disaster unless they get spending cuts that they weren't able to enact through normal, Constitutional means.
Republicans have, in effect, taken America hostage, threatening to undermine the economy and disrupt the essential business of government unless they get policy concessions they would never have been able to enact through legislation.
Mr. Obama, they said, would consult with lawmakers even if he decided to enact his system through executive order.
To that end, he announced "a series of concrete and substantial reforms" that he intended either to adopt himself under his authority as president or, where appropriate, to call upon Congress to enact through legislation.
