promulgate
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On Monday, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said Macron "has decided to promulgate the law" containing the ban on phones, despite the Constitutional Council striking down its flagship provision.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Ms. Wentz is at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, whose “core mission” is to “develop and promulgate legal techniques to combat the climate crisis and advance climate justice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
When Benedict retired amid more internal scandals in 2013, saying he lacked the energy to do the job, he lost his papal authority and power to promulgate dogma.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
He couldn’t easily promulgate it, though, because he had a tragic flaw: a severe speech impediment, perhaps a stutter.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Achieving the first goal necessitates restraint and care, both from the SEC when it promulgates a rule and from Congress when it directs the commission to mandate disclosure on a subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
According to the disclosures, the FBI usually would immediately disseminate information and provide training when the federal judiciary promulgates new legal guidance or directives.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Race, a keen source of conflict in the stories a society promulgates about itself, raises these stakes astronomically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
James taught that the value of a practice or policy doesn’t depend on the authority or movement that promulgates it, nor on the philosophical framework from which it derives.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2020
He exiles opponents, reorganizes the National Guard, promulgates a new constitution, and restores titles of nobility abolished in the Revolution of 1848.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
Thomas Malthus promulgated the theory that population would grow at a faster rate than the means to support that population could, and so there would have to be ways to reduce population in unpleasant ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Nearly 150 members of Congress — including more than a dozen Republicans — wrote a letter the day after the rule was promulgated expressing “disappointment” over the exclusion of post-baccalaureate nursing degrees.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
These interventions were all functions of the Monroe Doctrine, first promulgated by President James Monroe in 1823.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
The director for decades, J. Edgar Hoover, had promulgated enormous abuses of the bureau.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
This he did mainly by the Capitulare Missorum Generale, promulgated early in 802 at an assembly at the favorite capital Aix-la-Chapelle.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
It also claimed Lara did not follow regulatory protocol in promulgating the new policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
When reminiscing about films or promulgating his ideas on technique, Kurosawa comes across as approachable and marvelously unassuming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
All state matters were rigorously scrutinized by Louis, and he spent hours planning troop movements, overseeing the building of roads and canals, and promulgating legal codes for France’s colonies.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
By promulgating knowledge of how white supremacy works, the theory goes, racial justice can be advanced.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2022
Domestically, we have hardened our financial systems against terrorist abuse by promulgating effective regulations, requiring financial institutions to report suspicious transactions, and building effective public/private partnerships.
From National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 by National Security Council (U.S.)
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