decree
Example Sentences
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"For me, justice is the decree that these people intentionally, deliberately did what they did. I want them to be punished by law."
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2026
They are seeking an amendment to a government decree which, since 2021, has required foreign video streaming platforms to finance French audiovisual production and cinema with a slice of their revenue.
From Barron's • Jul. 6, 2026
First, does either a federal consent decree that Arizona entered into 2018 or a federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, prevent Arizona from rejecting voter registrations when voters don’t produce documentary proof of citizenship?
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2026
Did Gordon Granger, an otherwise obscure Union Army general, really stroll into Galveston and read a decree from Abraham Lincoln declaring, to a sea of onlookers, that all enslaved people were now officially free?
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026
Instead he uttered a decree that came like a thunderclap out of the storm of his language.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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