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am ordering

  • present progressive of order (1st person singular).

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“There is sufficient confusion that I am ordering an independent external review of UCLA’s planning and its actions and of the mutual aid response” by law enforcement, he wrote in the letter.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2024

“Colorado voters have made their voices heard, and I am ordering this recount in accordance with Colorado law to confirm the will of the voters.”

From Washington Times Dec. 1, 2022

As a precautionary measure until we have more information, I am ordering additional air travel restrictions from South Africa and seven other countries.

From Fox News Nov. 27, 2021

I also am ordering the director of national intelligence to work with Congress to develop a process that fully protects the sources and methods used to gather information even as it aims for maximum transparency.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2018

I am ordering Joan de Ledesma to send you, with this, signed copies of the decrees prohibiting Peru and Guatemala from trading in those islands and in China.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander