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Decreeing a special election Jan. 12 to fill Senator Caraway's place permanently, he recommended Widow Caraway for the Democratic nomination, promised to vote for her.

From Time Magazine Archive

Who then could make a law Decreeing knowledge to a certain few, To others ignorance?

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry

And again: "Decreeing this, that if any one of our brethren in any province die, he who is known to be the Metropolitan of that province, should claim to himself the ordination of the Priest."

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)