ordain
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“The power to ‘define a crime and ordain its punishment’ is an exclusively legislative function,” the justices wrote.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2024
But first they would ordain, for a time, as a Buddhist monk and nun.
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2023
"Dr Mawhinney's comments ignore the fact that it has been the policy of the Presbyterian Church to ordain women to eldership for almost a century, and to the ministry for exactly fifty years," it continued.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023
It happened in the wake of Saddleback’s determination as an autonomous local church to ordain female ministers — not as senior pastors of the church, but as associate ministers of the church.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Then Scythe Mandela said, “Ransom Paladini, we have chosen not to ordain you as a scythe. Wherever life leads you, we wish you well. You are dismissed.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution (1787)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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