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The Met told the BBC it made immediate efforts to obtain information in order to assess whether to travel to Barbados but decided it would not be appropriate without an allegation of criminality.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
The discovery provides important evidence about how electrical order develops in this unusual crystal while also establishing a method for manipulating that order with light.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
"We need that coalition in order to be able to push back against the status quo," she told AFP in the run-up to her election.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Like other travelers, our columnist was swept up in the FAA order that upended weekend plans across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Father always arrived a couple of hours before the time signal in order to visit the wholesalers who supplied him with watches and parts.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Then there’s the use of gagging orders and other legal routes often used by celebrities and media organisations to stop women speaking out.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
That represents an improvement of orders of magnitude over conventional methods, making it possible to obtain predictions far more quickly without substantially compromising accuracy.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
“Yes, Your Honor. It is — the government is executing lawful orders of removal,” replied Justice Department attorney Dimitar Georgiev-Remmel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The number of Uber and Uber Eats orders made by AI agents over the busy Halloween week, out of 320 million total orders that week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
He had violated no orders, and no one could prove his motive was anything other than protecting his men.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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A similar plan was briefly outlined as an option in a natural catastrophe resilience study ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom this year in response to climate change and the Palisades and Eaton wildfires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
A nationwide ground stop has only been ordered one other time since all flights were banned from take-off for several days following the 11 September 2001 attacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
In France, a court in June ordered TotalEnergies to take into account emissions linked to all its products in its corporate vigilance plan.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Greece recently became the seventh European country to adopt the KC-390, while the model has also been ordered by South Korea, Uzbekistan and Colombia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
“Take us to the British Museum,” she ordered the coachman.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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He took out his phone and started tapping in the manner of a guy ordering a taxi - for Scotland, of course.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
One officer, wearing a face covering and a vest emblazoned with “POLICE ICE,” tells onlookers to back away from the scene, ordering them, “Do not impede with the arrest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
The theft outraged Johnston, who encouraged Puyi to assert control over the imperial warehouses by ordering a full inventory of their holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The ICJ has already made one ruling in this case, ordering Myanmar in 2020 to "take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts" described by the Genocide Convention.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
I can still hear her heels clicking loudly behind the gurney, her ordering the people around as if she were the chief of surgery.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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