Word: enacted
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...provisions of this ordinance shall be severable in all respects. The City Council shall, in the form of a home rule petition if required, request the state legislature to enact all measures necessary or convenient for implementing these provisions...
...provisions of this ordinance shall be severable in all respects. The City Council shall, in the form of a home rule petition if required, request the state legislature to enact all measures necessary or convenient for implementing these provisions...
...calibrate each offense according to its severity; this can lead to situations in which an armed assault can draw the same penalty, say 15 years, as a simple robbery. In recent years, moreover, disparities in the punishments prescribed for various crimes have been exaggerated by legislators' tendency to enact mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for drug crimes...
...vote, in which 42 Republicans joined 189 Democrats in the unsuccessful bid to enact the bill over the president's veto, left intact an 8-year-old ban of federal financing of abortions for poor women, except when their lives are threatened...
Sixty-two members of Lebanon's parliament convened last week in Saudi Arabia, meeting outside the country to avoid being intimidated by Syrian troops, who have occupied Beirut for the past three years. The session's goal: to enact political reforms called for in an Arab League peace plan that produced a cease-fire two weeks ago in the six-month-old civil war pitting Lebanon's Christians against the Syrians and their Muslim allies. The meeting will continue, said one member, "however long that takes...