Translation of enact in Spanish:

enact

promulgar, v.
Spanish
Latin American Spanish

Pronunciation /ɛnˈækt//ɛˈnakt//ɪˈnakt//ɪnˈækt/

transitive verb

1
Politics Law
(law) promulgar
(bill) aprobar
- After Virginia legislators enacted that colony's first comprehensive slave code in 1705, internal rather than outside influences predominated.
- The Brazilian government had recently enacted economic reforms that included a stabilized currency.
- The statute was enacted pursuant to Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
- We should remember that no other group of citizens is consulted before measures are enacted to prevent illegal activity.
- Parliament has not expressly enacted what standard of proof shall be applied on an application for a sex offender order.
- Hunted for its pelt, the lynx declined until protective legislation was enacted in the 1970s.
- Several judges have thrown out democratically enacted term limits.
- Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
- They serve to impose what could never be legislatively enacted.
- Congress enacted the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 to protect dolphins from the effects of purse seine tuna fishing.
- Congress recently enacted sweeping anti-terrorism legislation which expanded law enforcement powers, and outlawed biological materials.
- Under your watch, laws eradicating civil liberties have been enacted which put into question the rights of citizens.
- The proposed law - expected to be enacted in July - also would compel companies to prevent workplace bad behavior.
- And at the same time, several German states have already enacted the proposed French style bans on student attire.
- In the United States, several states have already enacted genetic privacy laws.
- The legislative framework: under the 1992 legislation as originally enacted.
- Rather, Parliament was enacting legislation in which a number of classes of persons have significant interests.
- Accordingly, she filed suit in federal court under the newly enacted Violence Against Women Act.
- Remember, there has been no significant piece of reformist legislation enacted into law for nearly 30 years.
- Some states have enacted statutes requiring mandatory reporting, civil and criminal penalties and emergency interventions.
- Adequate legislation should be enacted to ensure curbing of illegal activities in the forests.
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- 2.1(play out)
  representar
  We needed time to enact the recommendations of the royal commission.
  Whereas a legislator must check his impulse to enact his religious precepts into law, an executive official faces a somewhat different problem.
  The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order.
  He had urged the immediate creation of the national intelligence post and promised that if elected he would enact the commission's recommendations by executive fiat.
  We may still, as a rule, like to believe in marriage, but the reality is that we are increasingly choosing not to enact that belief.
  Most of the committee's recommendations were enacted.
  Some items ask respondents about the ethical beliefs of their partners, regardless of whether the beliefs are behaviourally enacted or not.
  Without understanding why, she allowed herself to enact the strange thought.
  And more measures must be enacted to ensure doctors and surgeons are not severely overworked.
  Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent.
  He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president.
  The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas.
  We hope the proposed improvements will be enacted during the current session of the Diet.
  If the Law Commission's recommendations are enacted they will remove some of the worst anomalies that currently bedevil the law on recovery for negligently inflicted psychiatric damage.
  The commission's recommendations, if enacted, could prove critical to safeguarding the US.
  It is not clear if Bremer formally enacted her recommendations or not.
  Lumber company and government employees were more likely to enact recommendations that were convenient and cheap.
- 2.2formal (perform)
  (play/role) representar
  Damien Matthews enacts the role of the actor in the play and Herford himself plays the part of the lawyer.
  The actress enacts the role of Helen, a nun, who helps two children who are ostracised by society after the death of their parents due to AIDS.
  Once the moment has been enacted on stage, it can never come back.
  Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning.
  Travelling drama groups visited different communities to enact short plays about gender violence.
  Perhaps the dramatist was unwilling to repeat material recently enacted in the True Tragedy.
  The baddie roles are enacted by Rob and Budd, professional stage actors from Hollywood.
  Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism.
  When the children performed, enacting the various plays on stage, their disability was hardly on their mind.