decree
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He has spent the past year building the scaffolding of accountability: a National Commission for Transitional Justice established by decree last May, a Commission for the Missing that names transitional justice as a priority.
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Hun Sen posted on Facebook that Sokha had been "pardoned", alongside a photo of the royal decree signed by him.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Monday's pardon did not undo an additional sentence against Kem Sokha, added by the appeals court, banning him from leaving the country for five years, the royal decree said.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
In 2010, as a condition of the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger, the newly formed company agreed to a consent decree with the government that prohibited the firm from threatening venues to use Ticketmaster.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 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
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