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He said doing so was likely illegal even if the City Council agreed to it, because of “housing first” policies codified in state law.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

This theory, codified in Cold War deterrence doctrine, held that matching force with roughly equal force would control the so-called escalation ladder.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“There is a method to how these decisions historically have been made — a method scientific in nature and codified into law through procedural requirements,” Murphy wrote.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

These are the athlete expression guidelines, external, determined in 2023 and which have been codified into Olympic law.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

He was the first to prove geometric theorems of the sort codified by Euclid three centuries later—for example, the proposition that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan