enactment

enact | American Dictionary

enact
verb[ T ]
us/ɪˈnækt/
to make a law, or to make an idea into a law:
For the second year, national lawmakers failed to enact environmental legislation.

enact | Business English

enact
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪˈnækt/us
LAW
to make a law or a rule become official:
The government is to enact a law aimed at improving safety on construction sites.

enactment

noun[ C or U ]
There must be consultation with employer and employee representatives before the enactment of new regulations.

Examples of enact

enact
Basically, a coordination artifact entails a form of mediation among the agents using it, and effectively embeds and enacts some coordination policies.
Their fiercely enacted fantasies may even erode some of the ideological power of bodily-indexed binaries and naturalised dualities.
Throughout the postwar era, leftist opposition parties strongly objected to enacting such legislation, arguing that it would represent a step toward the nation's remilitarization.
Sectoral governance is, however, less successful in enacting those regulatory solutions in the face of distributive conflict in a politicised environment.
Two rules identical in the positions they create, and the descriptions they produce, might differ in the processes by which they were enacted.
Therefore, if legislators predict that bills will be enacted, they will vote for bills although they prefer to defeat bills.
Even (seemingly) unimportant enacted laws change the status quo policy and have greater utility than dead important bills.
No bill was enacted into law at this session.
The president may also want to break political stalemates within her party or put pressure on her opponents to get her policies enacted.
The deflationary policies enacted in response to the depression led to severe cutbacks in metropolitan army effectives in the early 1930s.
Moreover, in both cases the harm flows from an unjustified governmental action, namely the action of enacting the r ule.
Judges defer to legislators when the will of the latter is clearly expressed in statutes that have been enacted in the procedurally correct way.
A good number of local constitutions have been reformed, and a few state laws on indigenous rights and culture have been enacted.
At the same time as landed income went up, parliament enacted legislation to limit patronage sources available to politicians.
In so doing, they created an arena within which the complex interplay of gendered sexualities was enacted.
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