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So it was enabling a direct delivery of government services that wasn’t being done.”

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

In 2008, the Venezuelan daily El Nacional published a letter written by parliamentary workers that urged Chávez to “combat the corruption” Flores was enabling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

South Korea played its ultimate cultural gamble, pumping investment not into bricks and mortar, but information technology and the fledgling pop culture industries it was enabling; pop music, fashion, cosmetics, TV and film.

From National Geographic • Jan. 16, 2024

A week ago, however, he said that several members of the production told him that they felt he was enabling behavior similar to what he had condemned in his resignation letter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022

The historic transformation of music in the jazz age was enabling an equally historic, admittedly embryonic, social transformation.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall