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decree

[dih-kree] / dɪˈkri /




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Zelensky's decree also cited Melania Trump's wider humanitarian work, including her efforts concerning Ukrainian children affected by the war, as reasons for giving her the Princess Olga award.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Alongside this, investors and analysts will be focused on updates around the U.S. consent decree process, she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

But Stewart brought more to the role than a physical resemblance and a voice that could make a grocery list sound like a royal decree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

But both elections will now be held on September 11, 2027, Abbas said in a decree, blaming Israeli "obstacles", according to the Palestinian official news agency Wafa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

But five of the chieftains who had marched with him to Thebes lay unburied, and according to Creon’s decree would be left so forever.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“Penalties, consent agreements and decrees have not deterred Meta from using deceptive trade practices,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

During his nearly 60-day period abroad so far, he has signed several other decrees, including some authorising his government to sign loan agreements with international financial institutions.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

"Cus-tom decrees that the khaleesi must ride a mount worthy of her place by the side of the khal."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The fates, and fixture list, decreed it would be at Liverpool, whose fans nurse the most burning sense of injustice after finishing second to City in 2013-14, 2018-19 and 2021-22.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

When it was adopted, California’s Article I, Section 18 decreed: “Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

“In the odious decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford, this Court imposed the Southern States’ beliefs onto the Nation” and decreed Blacks could not become citizens, Roberts wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Having single-handedly “removed the shadow of history from our relationship,” he decreed that it was time to “leave behind the ideological battles of the past” and walk forward together into a “new era.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

For tradition had long decreed that a bad dream on any New Year’s Eve was an omen of bad tomorrows.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

The second scenario is that they are expelled by the Premier League, which would require 15 of their rival clubs to vote in favour of a motion decreeing so.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

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

The facts about Everest were established, and this involved a triple process of finding, making and decreeing.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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