(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.
Purpose
Definition:
(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.
(n.) Instance; example.
(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(2) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(4) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(6) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(8) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(9) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(10) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(11) For this purpose the blood flow velocity in the internal carotid artery, basilar cerebral artery and the anterior cerebral artery was measured by pulsed Dopplersonography before and 5-10 min after i.v.
(12) The purpose of our study was to determine the effect of HVPC on edema formation in frogs.
(13) The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pretreatment with indomethacin on the refractory period to hypertonic saline-induced bronchoconstriction.
(14) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(15) It delimitates the restrictive conditions in which such methods could be used for clinical but not research purposes.
(16) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(17) The purposes of this study were to assess the career development needs of entering medical students as measured by the Medical Career Development Inventory and to examine gender differences in responses to the inventory.
(18) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(19) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
(20) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.