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enact

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1. enact - Noun

2. enact - Verb

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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.

To act; to perform; to do; to effect.

To act the part of; to represent; to play.

Purpose; determination.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. John Coleman

The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now. Alan Hirsch

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them. Barney Frank

He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are. Ursula K. Le Guin

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves. Germaine Greer

If civilization is to be bound up with material advancement, we must accept its inevitable consequence, loss of freedom in enact proportion to the forward march. C. Rajagopalachari

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