Sentence examples for working to enact from inspiring English sources
As mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg has prioritized health initiatives, working to enact policies that reduce the size of soft drinks and require restaurants to limit trans fats and post calorie counts.
Going after sacred cows like social insurance programs or popular spending programs, or working to enact abortion restrictions, were political nonstarters (or were quickly shelved once they became political liabilities).
Drawing on their research, legislators in several states are now working to enact bills that impose a per-ton fee on carbon emitters, but it's no easy task to win political support for such measures.
They attracted black homebuyers to their communities with an array of methods, including locating willing white residents who were willing to sell their homes to black homebuyers and working to enact local fair housing ordinances.
The 2009 fiscal year began last October, just as President George W. Bush and Congress were contending with the near-collapse of the financial system and working to enact what became a $700 billion rescue plan.
Today, lessons learned from the likes of the Sex Garage raid are again important to hold close as we witness the steady and vicious rollback of human rights the Trump administration is working to enact, including against LGBTQ2+ people.
In 2002 the Humane Society of the United States worked to enact a ban in Florida, and since then has achieved the same in seven additional states.
Many of them contain the fatal words "served on," "fought to," and "worked to enact" which are often legislative synonyms for "was in the room when..."...
Daley was referring to a law that Hammer worked to enact in 2011, during Governor Rick Scott's first year in office.
If this does not happen because of legal interpretation, I will work to enact the required legislation to expel al-Jazeera from Israel," the Israeli leader added.
How hard would they work to enact Congress's mandate to screen all seaborne containers heading for ports in the United States and the air cargo on all passenger planes within the next five years?
