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(tr) to bully or domineer

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How to use order about in a sentence

And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.
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He could order the Justice Department to begin the necessary regulatory work.
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So, in an unusual order (PDF) issued on New Years Day, District Judge Robert Hinkle clarified the issue.
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So working with the militants in order to deliver aid “becomes a requirement,” she said.
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If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.
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Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
Children's Ways|James Sully

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