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decree
noun as in mandate, legal order
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After a September emergency decree and martial rhetoric about a “republic in arms,” the Venezuelan president says militias and reservists are now mobilized nationwide.
Louis accepted most of the August 1789 decrees that it issued, closing the first chapter of the revolution.
The judge decreed there were “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure” to Mr. Cruz “will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”
Russia's Supreme Court in 2021 upheld a Yeltsin-era presidential decree that kept information about Soviet security police secret, preventing potential exposure of those responsible for executions.
Apparently fate has decreed that I will go around looking to cameras, but not to humans, like I’ve just been stunned.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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