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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday allowing Italy's UniCredit bank to sell part of its Russian business, paving the way for it to draw down its presence in the country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Sánchez's ruling coalition hurriedly drew up the decree laws in an effort to defuse the housing protests that were sparked when 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal was evicted in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

MPs rejected the first decree by 178 votes to 172 and voted against the second by 184 to 166.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin of California signed the consent decree, binding the concessions that Paramount offered to end an antitrust challenge brought by 12 states.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Soon he left Chicago and moved to Gilman, Illinois, where he met a young woman and began a formal courtship, which compelled him to visit Holmes’s building one more time, to seek a divorce decree.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The legislation put forward in Congress on Friday was divided into two separate decrees.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The decrees, which introduced a series of initiatives aimed at protecting tenants in the rental market, required parliamentary approval in order to remain in place.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“New decrees can rewrite the economic rulebook in days, not years,” Mr. Romeu observes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

But consent decrees are legally and politically complicated, and the treatment of migrant children further tangles the situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The school, where they paid attention to him and respected him, and then power, with his endless decrees and his glorious uniform, freed him from the weight of an old bitterness.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For decades, China's Communist Party decreed that couples could have only one child.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

A decade ago, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman – or MBS as he is widely known – decreed a revisioning of his country that leapt from the realm of science fiction.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Tina Peters deserved to go to jail but not for nine years, a panel of judges decreed, ordering her resentencing.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Not so the computer, which Jobs decreed had to take the form of a perfect cube made of magnesium-alloy—nevermind that cubes are notoriously difficult to manufacture and magnesium tends to cause paint to bubble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

A majority opposed the oath but chose to sign nevertheless, especially after the regents decreed that those who refused would face dismissal.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The second scenario is that they are expelled by the Premier League, which would require 15 of their rival clubs to vote in favour of a motion decreeing so.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It is roughly analogous to a disgruntled DMV employee refusing to process your driver’s license renewal paperwork, and also unilaterally decreeing that you were never allowed to operate a motor vehicle in the first place.

From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2023

One resident, Gulnaz Gilmanova, wrote that she was ashamed of the village administration for decreeing that he be buried without military honors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2023

Any papal document would likely take the form of an Apostolic Constitution decreeing changes in Church law.

From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2022

Arcadio gave a rare display of generosity by decreeing official mourning for Pietro Crespi.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez