decreed

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• The source familiar with the investigation said it is significant the complaint was filed in San Francisco, and that Individual X signed a consent decree.

• A federal court decree maintains that the government can only detain migrant children without their parents for a period of up to 72 hours before passing them on to a network of shelters and foster care.

• The 2-to-1 decision issued Thursday voided part of a consent decree approved after a citizen’s group had challenged the state’s counting timeline.

• You might be unconvinced by her argument that a recent law giving Orbán the power to effectively rule by decree isn’t a power grab, but she’ll keep at it.

• Its primary tool—so-called consent decrees—don’t allow the agency to impose fines for a first offense and, when a company violates those decrees, the penalties haven’t been enough to change their behavior.

• Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.

• There would not be female priests, he decreed: “That door is closed.”

• Harry, it has been decreed, will not be photographed near any alcohol.

• In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev decreed that the Chechens could return to their ancestral homelands.

• Restive al Anbar province, the decreed center of a new al Qaeda state, was lost.

• The French convention decreed that no quarters be given to British and Hanoverian soldiers.

• After all, the penalties inflicted on the press, though not by juries, were somewhat more severe than those of to-day.