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He said the governor should not be allowed “to evade judicial review by issuing short-term edicts and then urging us to overlook their problems only because one edict is about to expire while the next has yet to arrive.”
SUPREME COURT WON’T EXEMPT RELIGIOUS SCHOOL FROM KY. CORONAVIRUS-CLOSURE ORDERROBERT BARNESDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Democrats are authoritarians for banning large gatherings and hypocrites for instances in which they deviate from those edicts.
MCENANY HAS MASTERED THE ‘ALL OF THE CREDIT, NONE OF THE BLAME’ APPROACH TO THE PANDEMICPHILIP BUMPDECEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Meanwhile, the most famous Supreme Court case about vaccines dates from 1905, and involves a man who challenged an edict by city officials in Cambridge, MA to get a vaccine for smallpox or receive a $5 fine.
CAN YOUR BOSS MAKE YOU GET A COVID VACCINE? PROBABLYJEFFNOVEMBER 29, 2020FORTUNE
The edict of the line is to be efficient, towable, and rugged.
AN OFF-GRID TEST OF AIRSTREAM'S MOST RUGGED TRAILERHAYDEN COPLENNOVEMBER 22, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
I can’t see my girls publicly challenging Padre Giulio on his edict.
GLOBAL STOCKS FALL, DOLLAR RISES AS STIMULUS TALKS FADE AND COVID CASES SPIKEBERNHARD WARNEROCTOBER 26, 2020FORTUNE
He prohibited the assemblies in the cemeteries, and reiterated the edict of extermination against the Christians.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
With intensifying violence edict followed edict, like successive strokes of thunder in a raging storm.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
Non licet esse vos—It is not lawful for you to exist—was the stern edict of extermination pronounced against the saints.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
There are many resident English, who have been nationalized by express edict, or the construction of the law.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO EDICT

  • command
  • commandment
  • decree
  • dictate
  • edict
  • execution
  • legislation
  • order
  • ordinance
  • proclamation
  • ratification
  • regulation
  • statute
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