promulgate
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On Monday, government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said Macron "has decided to promulgate the law" containing the ban on phones, despite the Constitutional Council striking down its flagship provision.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Ms. Wentz is at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, whose “core mission” is to “develop and promulgate legal techniques to combat the climate crisis and advance climate justice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
The Sisters have come a long way, but never strayed from their mission: to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
When Benedict retired amid more internal scandals in 2013, saying he lacked the energy to do the job, he lost his papal authority and power to promulgate dogma.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
He couldn’t easily promulgate it, though, because he had a tragic flaw: a severe speech impediment, perhaps a stutter.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Achieving the first goal necessitates restraint and care, both from the SEC when it promulgates a rule and from Congress when it directs the commission to mandate disclosure on a subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
According to the disclosures, the FBI usually would immediately disseminate information and provide training when the federal judiciary promulgates new legal guidance or directives.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
Race, a keen source of conflict in the stories a society promulgates about itself, raises these stakes astronomically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
That will come when the E.P.A. officially promulgates a proposed new rule, possibly later this year.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
In the midst of thunder and lightning he promulgates his laws.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
The White House Office of Management and Budget promulgated the first government-wide standards in 1977, which have been used by every administration during the past five decades.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
And yet, the new policy promulgated by Homeland Security and U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
It promulgated an impressive miniconstitution and signed an international treaty with Britain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
These interventions were all functions of the Monroe Doctrine, first promulgated by President James Monroe in 1823.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Aachen, Charlemagne's capital, 108, 110; basilica at, 113;assembly at, 119;capitulary for the missi promulgated from, 135;in territory assigned to Lothair, 155.Abbeville,
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
It also claimed Lara did not follow regulatory protocol in promulgating the new policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
When reminiscing about films or promulgating his ideas on technique, Kurosawa comes across as approachable and marvelously unassuming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
All state matters were rigorously scrutinized by Louis, and he spent hours planning troop movements, overseeing the building of roads and canals, and promulgating legal codes for France’s colonies.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“I don’t think that a parent should spend a moment of feeling guilty about promulgating that life lesson.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
"You speak as if you were a sybil, promulgating mysterious prophecies!"
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
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