0 to put something into action, especially to make something law: --
2 to make a law, or to make an idea into a law: --
For the second year, national lawmakers failed to enact environmental legislation.
3 to make a law or a rule become official: --
The government is to enact a law aimed at improving safety on construction sites.
In so doing, they created an arena within which the complex interplay of gendered sexualities was enacted.
At the same time as landed income went up, parliament enacted legislation to limit patronage sources available to politicians.
A good number of local constitutions have been reformed, and a few state laws on indigenous rights and culture have been enacted.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
Moreover, in both cases the harm flows from an unjustified governmental action, namely the action of enacting the r ule.
The deflationary policies enacted in response to the depression led to severe cutbacks in metropolitan army effectives in the early 1930s.
The president may also want to break political stalemates within her party or put pressure on her opponents to get her policies enacted.
No bill was enacted into law at this session.
