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It is roughly analogous to a disgruntled DMV employee refusing to process your driver’s license renewal paperwork, and also unilaterally decreeing that you were never allowed to operate a motor vehicle in the first place.

From Slate • Nov. 21, 2023

One resident, Gulnaz Gilmanova, wrote that she was ashamed of the village administration for decreeing that he be buried without military honors.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2023

Any papal document would likely take the form of an Apostolic Constitution decreeing changes in Church law.

From Reuters • Aug. 22, 2022

Women’s advocates, largely supported by religious scholars, have always maintained there’s nothing in the Quran decreeing a covering as restrictive as the burqa.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2021

Nothing could be more straightforward—except we never talk about finding, making or decreeing facts; instead, we ‘establish facts’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton