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decreed

adjective as in mandated

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The source familiar with the investigation said it is significant the complaint was filed in San Francisco, and that Individual X signed a consent decree.

From Fortune

A federal court decree maintains that the government can only detain migrant children without their parents for a period of up to 72 hours before passing them on to a network of shelters and foster care.

The 2-to-1 decision issued Thursday voided part of a consent decree approved after a citizen’s group had challenged the state’s counting timeline.

You might be unconvinced by her argument that a recent law giving Orbán the power to effectively rule by decree isn’t a power grab, but she’ll keep at it.

From Ozy

Its primary tool—so-called consent decrees—don’t allow the agency to impose fines for a first offense and, when a company violates those decrees, the penalties haven’t been enough to change their behavior.

From Fortune

Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.

There would not be female priests, he decreed: “That door is closed.”

Harry, it has been decreed, will not be photographed near any alcohol.

In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev decreed that the Chechens could return to their ancestral homelands.

Restive al Anbar province, the decreed center of a new al Qaeda state, was lost.

The French convention decreed that no quarters be given to British and Hanoverian soldiers.

After all, the penalties inflicted on the press, though not decreed by juries, were somewhat more severe than those of to-day.

On one occasion they decreed that a certain man whom they considered in fault was to pay a fine.

That set the son, who had hitherto been acting just as custom decreed, thinking about things in a new way.

Why should he question the Sphinx of Fate, or quarrel with destinies the high gods had decreed?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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