(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.
Purview
Definition:
(n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
(n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.
(n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although geropsychiatric nursing or mental health nursing with the elderly (MHNE) can be conceived of as a new subspecialty in psychiatric mental health nursing, in essence it is as old as nursing itself, for caring for people of all ages has always been within the purview of nursing.
(2) Freud's shift to the fantasy theory of neurosogenesis defined the investigation of intrapsychic life as our fundamental theoretical purview.
(3) In 1975, ASHP broadened its purview to represent pharmacists who practice in all types of organized health-care settings.
(4) Data reported in this paper also bring into purview the concept of internally controlled variation.
(5) While that’s not the governor’s purview to do that they indicated at the state level that they wouldn’t provide services,” Miller told the Guardian.
(6) The public health role was further limited in 1970 by the removal of much of environmental pollution from its purview.
(7) But the inquiry is clear that it is not within its purview to instigate prosecutions as a result of any allegations bought to its attention.
(8) That's assuming, of course, that the purview of Fisa approvals is exclusively "terrorists overseas," when a large part of the concern is the possible violation of Americans' privacy.
(9) The development of subspecialty training accreditation is the purview of the Residency Review Committees (RRCs) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
(10) Food and Drug Administration officials have also expressed a strong interest in reviewing these research protocols, which NIH considered within its purview.
(11) After much counting it has been estimated that the number of substances that will come under its purview is 143,000, give or take a sodium lauroamphoacetate or two.
(12) And the decision to remove the issue from parliamentary purview shows his respect for that institution depends on the political moment.
(13) However, management engineers need to work with hospital administrators who understand the field and who can expand their expectations beyond the traditional areas normally thought of as being within the purview of management engineering.
(14) But I hear it constantly from some of the precious petals, can I say, some of the precious petals in the science fraternity, and if you can’t guess, I won’t accept it.” Australia had a dedicated science portfolio in cabinet since the 1930s until Abbott’s decision to fold the role into Macfarlane’s purview.
(15) It cannot be overemphasized that the delivery of health care services is not exclusively within the purview of any one profession; rather, interdependence and sharing of responsibilities and activities in a team approach are characteristics of the human health system.
(16) Is a condition such as congenital syphilis within the purview of pediatric emergency medicine?
(17) Since this legislation excludes groups such as Muslims, Christians, and Parsis from its purview, there has been a demand for national legislation providing a uniform adoption law for all the communities in India.
(18) The survey results suggest that interest in and use of anabolic steroids are common, rather than the exclusive purview of competitive athletes.
(19) It’s actually that racial bias criminalizes black communities.” Comey also responded to questions about drug prosecution and police militarization, systemic issues in the law-enforcement community – if not directly under the FBI’s purview – that have come to the forefront in the last six months without federal reform.
(20) This discussion had also give rise to the purposes of the present study, that is, to outline such a qualification programme within the purview of the Dortmund labour exchange, including participants' opinions of the measure.