(v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
(v. t.) To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
(v. t.) To act the part of; to represent; to play.
(n.) Purpose; determination.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said that some voters would see Monday's acquittal as a positive step in the reforms recently enacted by the prime minister, Najib Razak.
(2) A similar visa program for Afghans who aided troops was enacted in 2009 and offered up to 8,500 visas .
(3) So it was with cruelty – the same cruelty seen in the enactment of the Muslim travel ban and the gamble with the healthcare of 24 million people – that Trump signed an executive order to begin construction immediately .
(4) The immunity was enacted by an overwhelming bipartisan vote, with the support of leading Democrats including Barack Obama, who had promised - when seeking his party's nomination - to filibuster any bill that contained retroactive telecom immunity.
(5) Australia In the 1980s, Australia was one of the first countries to enact the policy of “harm minimisation”, which involves reducing supply of drugs, education policies that aim to cut demand, and minimising harm caused by drugs on the user and community, through initiatives such as needle programs and safe injecting sites.
(6) Missouri enacted a 72-hour waiting period for abortions in October , and Brattin’s bill would further require women to receive the written and notarized consent of a fetus’ father before obtaining an abortion.
(7) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(8) By the end of 1991, all states except Pennsylvania and Nebraska had enacted some form of advance directive legislation.
(9) But 18 months after that report was published, many of its recommendations have yet to be enacted and, crucially, nothing has been done to assess the number of deaths and injuries or the reasons for them.
(10) When it was first enacted, critics claim, the law was designed to prosecute acts by violent third parties such as abusive boyfriends.
(11) FedEx, for example, as an operator of trucks, supported the first-ever fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for US commercial vehicles, which were enacted in 2007.
(12) He also promised to restart discussions on political reform and enact highly controversial national security legislation, which was previously shelved after large street protests.
(13) His perceptions of an analysand's motivations are influenced by two complementary affect-defense configurations: inhibition in response to anxiety and enactment of wishful fantasy in response to depressive affect.
(14) These laws, with their disparate impact on minority communities, echo policies enacted during a deeply troubled period in America’s past — a time of post-civil war discrimination,” he said.
(15) I saw it re-enacted in the National Theatre's excellent 70s politics production, The House, only last night .
(16) The opposition leader, Delia Lawrie, said the matter was “descending into farce” and called for the government to “at least” enact an independent judicial inquiry.
(17) "In July we announced Atos had been instructed to enact a quality improvement plan to remedy the unacceptable reduction in quality identified in the written reports provided to the department," the spokesperson said.
(18) US farmers are in the middle of the worst drought they've faced in half a century , and pressure is growing from Democrats, farm lobbies, and deficit hawks for Congress to enact the new law.
(19) Public protest has been all but banned by a law enacted in November 2013 that formed part of the harsh response to the protests that deposed Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 .
(20) The Aboriginal Legal Service in New South Wales has a 24-hour custody notification service – a measure recommended by the 1991 royal commission but enacted in no other states or territories.
Ordain
Definition:
(v. t.) To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
(v. t.) To regulate, or establish, by appointment, decree, or law; to constitute; to decree; to appoint; to institute.
(v. t.) To set apart for an office; to appoint.
(v. t.) To invest with ministerial or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(2) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(3) Cameron replied: “I don’t think they will want to be and I think they will feel pressure and want to do more.” “We should try to encourage them to do it in their own way rather than say there is some pre-ordained route they have to follow.” He said the US had managed to cut its carbon emissions thanks to the “unexpected bonus” of the “shale revolution” – widely known as fracking – which meant it was burning less coal.
(4) But Salinger ordained that these works should not be published until 50 years after his death.
(5) They leave with basic dry food in carrier bags, but no answer to an economy that ordains lifetimes of pay no family can live on.
(6) These observations are consistent with a model whereby RB expression acts as a cellular brake to sustain a developmentally ordained state of differentiation (i.e., preserve the "status quo"); and the down-regulation of heterogeneously distributed RB protein per cell below a threshold is part of the metabolic cascade culminating in terminal cell differentiation.
(7) The board ordains other conditions, such as warm clothing, essential for outdoor work.
(8) He respects his colleagues who took a different view and says that the discussions over recent days have been some of the best he has been involved in the church since being ordained in 1993.
(9) Following the change in the law, church leaders, headed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu respectively, decided that clergy must not enter into a same-sex marriage and that those in a gay marriage would not be ordained.
(10) AL Kennedy: 'Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat' Dundee-born AL Kennedy, 45, is an ordained minister, standup and dramatist, as well as an award-winning fiction writer.
(11) He did not believe the United States was safe.” Doggart’s defense attorneys said their client is an ordained minister with the Christian National Church, has numerous degrees and certificates and is a veteran.
(12) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
(13) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(14) King was ordained, did a doctoral degree at Boston University, and then in 1955 became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, an upper-income Negro church in Montgomery, Alabama.
(15) Leonard once used the law of trespass to prevent 100 men and women accepting the ministration of a female priest ordained abroad.
(16) Labour's Criminal Justice Act in 2003 ordained longer sentences, while asbos and other licences led to more people being jailed for breaching them.
(17) The Dude even made it into the top 10 of Empire’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time and a religion promoting his life philosophy, Dudeism, has over 250,000 ordained priests.
(18) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
(19) Mackie plays Harry Mitchell, an agent tasked with keeping Damon to his ordained "plan" and away from love interest Emily Blunt.
(20) I would ... attach importance to the fact that Father Baldwin had been appointed by his bishop as parish priest: that is not simply to be equated with his status as ordained priest."