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No details were given about the circumstances of the alleged desertions of the 173 military personnel when Gen Amara Camara, the president's spokesman, read out the decree on Monday.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

During the violence, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa signed a decree enshrining the Kurds' national rights and recognising Kurdish as a national language, an unprecedented step since Syria's independence in 1946.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Under the settlement, TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and an additional $100 million after entering an order vacating a prior consent decree against its predecessor Musical.ly, the DOJ said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

An execution required a decree signed by the president, prime minister and justice minister - but no such decree has been signed since 2004.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

I shall decree a contest for the day.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“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

We’re using incentives, decrees, and tariff discounts to attract new manufacturing plants to produce things like cars and motorcycles within Colombia.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Many “return to office” mandates and expectations started as decrees from C-suite executives, after the pandemic broadened the appeal of working from home.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

These statements are met with lectures at first, but they soon become loudly voiced decrees and slammed doors.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

China's top economic planning body decreed in a statement in April that it would "prohibit the foreign investment" in the Manus deal and "requires the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction".

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

“In the odious decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford, this Court imposed the Southern States’ beliefs onto the Nation” and decreed Blacks could not become citizens, Roberts wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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

Interim president Delcy Rodriguez, a staunch defender of Maduro who took over after his ouster, decreed seven days of mourning for those killed in the January 3 attack.

From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026

Additionally, the government decreed that no more than four expeditions would be allowed on the Nepalese flanks each season.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

He even puts up a poster decreeing “No eating people” in his apartment, which vexes Venom mightily.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

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

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