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Example sentences for "enacts"

Lexicographically close words:
enact; enacted; enacting; enactment; enactments; enamel; enameled; enameling; enamelled; enameller
  1. Justinian enacts him to be ecumenical patriarch, which St. Gregory pronounces to be a title of diabolical pride: being, in fact, the building of spiritual power on temporal lordship.

  2. The assembly authorizes the revision of the constitution, enacts all laws, levies direct taxes, grants public privileges, establishes offices, and elects all executive and judicial officials of the canton.

  3. It enacts the budget and approves all taxes and duties.

  4. One embrace suffices; the rest all enacts itself in the very flanks of the bride.

  5. Man, though with less wholeness of soul, enacts the same dramas.

  6. The sophist himself, without confessing it, enacts a special interest.

  7. He enacts what he understands, and his understanding consists precisely in knowing that he is re-enacting something which has its collateral existence elsewhere in nature.

  8. The Code enacts the deprivation and deposition of a judge for revoking his judgment.

  9. This we learn from the Code, which enacts a penalty on one who should seduce a betrothed maiden living in her father’s house.

  10. The Code enacts that such a clause shall be held to act both ways; if it is inserted, then the man shall not be liable for his wife’s debts before marriage.

  11. A curious section of the Code enacts that if the suitor’s comrade intrigued to break off the match, he was excluded from marrying the girl himself.

  12. No creation of new copyholds by granting land out of the waste is permissible, save with the consent of the Board of Agriculture; and the act enacts that a valid admittance of a new copyholder may be made without holding a court.

  13. Since article 21 enacts that an admitted prize must leave the neutral port as soon as the circumstances which justified its entry are at an end, there is no doubt that it may remain if it cannot by repair be made seaworthy.

  14. Article 56 of the Hague Regulations expressly enacts that such property is to be treated as private property.

  15. Second Peace Conference enacts that it is forbidden to use torpedoes which do not become harmless if they miss their mark.

  16. Second Peace Conference categorically enacts that "belligerents are forbidden to move across the territory of a neutral Power troops or convoys either of munitions of war or of supplies.

  17. That the released vessel may claim damages is a matter of course, and article 64 of the Declaration of London precisely enacts it.

  18. Article 33 of the Hague Regulations specifically enacts that a commander to whom a flag of truce is sent "may take all steps necessary to prevent the envoy taking advantage of his mission to obtain information.

  19. For this reason, article 3 does not create a new rule in so far as it enacts that belligerents must pay for damage caused by members of their forces.

  20. Article 24 of the Hague Regulations now enacts the old customary rule that a belligerent has a right to employ all methods necessary to obtain information, and these methods include espionage and treason.

  21. Enacts that in all future parliaments for this realm, two knights for the shire of Monmouth, and one burgess for the town, shall be chosen and allowed such fees as other knights and burgesses of parliament were allowed.

  22. Enacts that one knight shall be elected for every shire within the country or dominion of Wales, and one burgess for every shire town, to serve in that and every future parliament to be holden for this realm.

  23. It enacts two knights for the county, and two burgesses for the city.

  24. It annexes the territory in question to the Orleans Territory; it creates a Governor; it enacts laws, and appropriates money.

  25. But what is this amendment which re-enacts the law of May last, and such pitiful reasoning as I have heard on this occasion, but placing our seal to that infamous insinuation?

  26. An important change was effected in 1362 by a statute, which enacts that all pleas in courts of justice shall be pleaded, debated, and judged in English.

  27. England, it enacts that "no man for doing true and faithful service to the king for the time being be convict or attaint of high treason, nor of other offences, by act of parliament or otherwise.

  28. In attempting to go further, it only enacts the apotheosis of its own subtle conceptions, and so sinks below the simpler ground already taken.

  29. Deity enacts moral laws because they are Revelations and decisions of the Divine, 737-m.

  30. Confucius still enacts the law for China; and the thoughts and ideas of Peter the Great govern Russia.

  31. Congress never enacts a measure which is believed to oppose public opinion;--your Congressman keeps his ear to the ground.

  32. When Congress enacts remedial legislation, our enemies take it to the Supreme Court, which promptly declares it unconstitutional.

  33. Still this is true only, provided the Church enacts no ordinances that are not necessary or at least plainly conducive to order or (generally) to the ends for which it is a Church.

  34. The Dutch language well expresses what the word means, where it is said, we are to obey what the ruler enacts (creates).

  35. So he uses the word here as though he said, what the magistracy enacts (creates) yield obedience to.

  36. Amendment, which enacts that if the right to vote for Federal officers is denied by any State to any of the male inhabitants of such State, except for crime, the basis of representation of such State shall be reduced in proportion specified.

  37. We feel, in spite of ourselves: we do nothing of ourselves: we are nothing without a Supreme Power which enacts all things.

  38. Its protest is entered only when that condition is overleaped, and when the dogmatist enacts his canon of belief as imperative, peremptory, binding upon all (allgemeingueltig) both assentient and dissentient.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enacts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.