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The decree published on Friday immediately freezes her assets, citing a legal mechanism aimed at preventing the commission of "new acts of interference", the finance ministry said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

But experts say existing protections would collapse without the legal architecture of the consent decree to support them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

A presidential decree sent the minimum wage up 23% in January.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

"For me, justice is the decree that these people intentionally, deliberately did what they did. I want them to be punished by law."

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Then came the response from Cambridge, the grandmotherly decree that this was acceptable, but Bailey would be going to Harvard, of course.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Since then, French President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed the symbolic repeal of royal decrees that governed slavery in French colonies.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

This stems from laïcité, the French brand of secularism which decrees the state and public institutions should be free of religion.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

In her interview with Mr. Varadarajan, Ms. Dhillon frames these consent decrees as onerous regulations that hamstring police.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Victor Lebrun objected, and his decrees were as immutable as those of Fate.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The outgoing president decreed a 24% minimum wage hike this January, more than even unions were demanding.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

The reality, however, is that international football's governing bodies have decreed the game must go ahead, whether anyone likes it or not.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

Almost every year since 2019, he has decreed an early start to the holiday season, seemingly moving it up as the country’s situation worsened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

In October, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott decreed that nothing that doesn’t directly support traffic control or safety can appear on the surface of Texas roads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

“A fair fight,” Yossarian decreed, and all the others who had come running to the uproar in horror began cheering ecstatically in a tremendous overflow of relief.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

It is roughly analogous to a disgruntled DMV employee refusing to process your driver’s license renewal paperwork, and also unilaterally decreeing that you were never allowed to operate a motor vehicle in the first place.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2023

Initially, the state Catholic Conference also didn’t back this latest referendum, decreeing in June that church parishes couldn’t be used for signature gathering.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

One resident, Gulnaz Gilmanova, wrote that she was ashamed of the village administration for decreeing that he be buried without military honors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

Any papal document would likely take the form of an Apostolic Constitution decreeing changes in Church law.

From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022

Nothing could be more straightforward—except we never talk about finding, making or decreeing facts; instead, we ‘establish facts’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton