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MPs rejected the first decree by 178 votes to 172 and voted against the second by 184 to 166.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The decree includes several safeguards on these issues, including a board meant to protect CNN's editorial independence.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of California signed the consent decree, binding the concessions that Paramount offered to end an antitrust challenge brought by 12 states.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín told both sides to answer Booker’s questions before she ruled on whether to approve the proposed consent decree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

On December 22 the chairman of the California Horse Racing Commission gathered reporters together and issued the board’s decree: Red Pollard was banned from riding all horses, including stakes mounts, until January 1,1938.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

The legislation put forward in Congress on Friday was divided into two separate decrees.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

We’re using incentives, decrees, and tariff discounts to attract new manufacturing plants to produce things like cars and motorcycles within Colombia.

From Barron's ● May 14, 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

"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

For decades, China's Communist Party decreed that couples could have only one child.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 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

But the Fates have decreed he will also be the most vulnerable.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

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