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Beijing also has a longstanding State Council decree, first issued in 2001 and updated days ago, allowing its regulators to override unfavorable changes in licensing related to chip design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Experts have cast doubt on the legal feasibility of the emergency decree, which is already in force but requires parliamentary approval to remain law.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 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

Set against a slithering, seductive Chicago house beat, it’s really more of a command, one that the Queen of Pop immediately follows with another decree: “Come on, meet me on the dance floor.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, Beasts of England had been abolished.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

Max Mathiasin, a lawmaker from the former colony turned overseas territory of Guadeloupe who is championing the bill, last week said repealing the decrees would be a "powerful symbolic and political gesture".

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

A serious accounting of departments like those in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., whose decrees Ms. Dhillon has dismissed, would conclude the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Many “return to office” mandates and expectations started as decrees from C-suite executives, after the pandemic broadened the appeal of working from home.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

For instance, councils need to have a library service - but there are no decrees over how many libraries there should be, when they should be open or how much should be spent on them.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

These categories imply that we find Everest to be covered in snow; we make today Thursday; and the bank decrees that this is legal tender.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

In this case, Musk decreed an opening price of $135 per share and the banks went along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

A decade ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman – or MBS as he is widely known – decreed a revisioning of his country that leapt from the realm of science fiction.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Interim president Delcy Rodriguez, a staunch defender of Maduro who took over after his ouster, decreed seven days of mourning for those killed in the January 3 attack.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Even if she’d had any interest in him, he could never afford to buy her indenture from Hoede, and she would never marry unless Hoede decreed it.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Multiple lawsuits were filed challenging the rules, leading to a series of lower court decisions upholding some of New York’s new law but decreeing that other aspects were unconstitutional.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

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

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

From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022

Women’s advocates, largely supported by religious scholars, have always maintained there’s nothing in the Quran decreeing a covering as restrictive as the burqa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

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