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
“Today’s FTC can bring civil enforcement suits against private parties, promulgate binding rules, issue final orders in administrative adjudications, and investigate potential violations of the law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
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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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
That will come when the E.P.A. officially promulgates a proposed new rule, possibly later this year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 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
Dec. 18, 2017: Pope Francis promulgates a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Peyton, bestowing upon him the title of “venerable.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2018
Posited outside the ego, the laws that it promulgates appear to us therefore independent of it.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
And yet, the new policy promulgated by Homeland Security and U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Officials this month promulgated a series of economic plans centered on a GDP growth target of 4.5% to 5%, the lowest since 1991.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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
He promulgated many laws inspired by a spirit of the purest benevolence.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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
National Resources Defense Council, and that case said that agencies should be given an enormous amount of deference in terms of the way that they interpret their own statutes when they’re promulgating regulations.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
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
Good morning, my friend, Swedenborg has been called away, but he has brought me to say a word and to assist in promulgating the truth.
From A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead by C. G. (Carl Gustaf) Helleberg
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