(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.
Promulgate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.
Example Sentences:
(1) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(2) Some international, national and state governments and agencies are currently evaluating and promulgating climate-related legislation and regulations that are focused on restricting greenhouse gas emissions,” the section then explains.
(3) Regulations have not yet been promulgated, in part because "the psychological well-being" of primates is extremely difficult to define.
(4) Most cases are treated on an outpatient basis and the Center for Disease Control has promulgated a set of recommendations for the outpatient treatment of acute salpingitis.
(5) Since the import and use of pesticides was in the public sector, the promulgation of the Agricultural Pesticides Ordinance was delayed to 1971 and the Rules to 1973.
(6) Such utopian, urban visions help drive the “smart city” rhetoric that has, for the past decade or so, been promulgated most energetically by big technology, engineering and consulting companies.
(7) As a result, clinicians have begun to promulgate the concept of an integrated, concurrent psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.
(8) The Act was promulgated as a result of pressure from people who wanted access to their notes and health professionals who recognised the benefits of open relationships with the people for whom they cared.
(9) "Certainly a recognition body will be set up, because the charter will be promulgated.
(10) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has promulgated a standard, expected to become mandatory in mid 1991, designed to protect employees from all exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials.
(11) It is argued that failure to do this promulgates an unfortunate tradition of shallow, inaccurate psychological measurement within gerontology.
(12) Later, and independent of our analysis, the Federal German Government promulgated a special regulation governing the setup of personal engaged in psychiatry, on 18 December 1990.
(13) More than 20 years ago the U.S. Department of Labor promulgated regulations designed to protect the hearing of employees who work in noisy environments.
(14) The promulgation of the Medicines Control Act (1964), the Pharmacy Act (1974) and the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Professions Act (1974) brought new dimensions to the strained relationship.
(15) Ethical considerations concerning research on a healthy population must go beyond the law recently promulgated in France.
(16) The solution to the occupational medical communication problem will be materially aided by the recent promulgation of a set of ethical principles for occupational physicians, and would be further advanced by the development of a review process for complaints and by the initiation of a public censure procedure for corporations which do not permit their physicians the opportunity to practice ethically.
(17) The results suggest the importance of female family members in the acceptance and promulgation of health promotion efforts for both essential and isolated systolic hypertension at the population level.
(18) He concludes that the role of mental disorder in the witch hunts has been overinflated by authors with an interest in promulgating the medical model of abnormal behavior.
(19) This article challenges the authority of state administrators to promulgate these rules, and argues that state constitutions, little mentioned in the Baby Doe debate thus far, may prohibit many states from adopting the federal standard.
(20) The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard is the first standard promulgated by OSHA that addresses a biological hazard in the workplace.