How to Use executive order in a Sentence
executive order
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By the way, this is the 75th anniversary of that executive order.
— Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023 -
Biden’s executive order on AI is available at this link, and the White House’s fact sheet about it is at this link.
— Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023 -
But a pair of executive orders in recent years have affected the right to vote for many of them.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023 -
Even Biden’s executive order was clear about the fact that the US government wanted to attract the best and brightest in the field.
— Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023 -
The executive order is the next step in the US and EU reaching a new privacy agreement.
— WIRED, 8 Oct. 2022 -
The White House, in a 2022 executive order, said that can ensure projects are completed on time.
— Kevin Freking, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023 -
Trump is in fact planning an executive order that would lead to the removal of all trans members of the U.S. military.
— Abby Monteil, Them, 23 Dec. 2024 -
Bush convinced the Senate not to do so, but agreed to an executive order that accomplished the same thing — a win for the future speaker.
— Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022 -
Coal miners should read the fine print on the President’s executive order.
— IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023 -
An executive order can enshrine these best practices in at least four ways.
— WIRED, 25 July 2023 -
Last fall, the President issued an executive order on the safe and secure use of AI to ensure that the tools advance equity.
— Ariel Katz, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024 -
The rule was part of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act signed in 2022 and an executive order last year.
— Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 -
Shapiro issued an executive order in September to explore how the state can use AI.
— Emilia David, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024 -
In conversation, Ramer talks less about earmarks and executive orders than about vines and fig trees.
— Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023 -
In May, Liberia’s president, Joseph Boakai, signed an executive order to create a special war crimes court.
— Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024 -
That wasn’t the case in 2020, when an executive order from Republican Gov.
— Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2022 -
Does that executive order -- what does that order do other than tell everybody to follow the law?
— NBC News, 10 July 2022 -
After the measure failed, Biden, a Democrat, signed an executive order earlier this month to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
— Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2024 -
The council lawsuit more broadly could be seen as a challenge of the mayor’s use of emergency executive orders.
— Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024 -
Despite the executive order, Biden stressed that political change is needed in order restore the rights lost by the overturn of Roe.
— Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 8 July 2022 -
Former President Donald Trump used an executive order to try to force a sale of the app to an American company or face a ban.
— TIME, 15 May 2024 -
As with any executive order, the rub is in how a sprawling and abstract document will be turned into concrete action.
— WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023 -
In October, 2020, Trump issued an executive order that was largely overlooked in the midst of the pandemic and that fall’s election.
— Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024 -
Biden signed an executive order in March directing DOJ to implement the rules.
— Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The president may issue a national decree, or the state governor through an executive order, to have the flags lowered at half-staff.
— Ridah Syed, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023 -
The first lady’s appearance at the summit came a week after President Biden signed an executive order to advance the study of women’s health.
— Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Adding to the uproar was an error in Youngkin’s executive order, his 19th since taking office in January.
— Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 1 July 2022 -
But again, the governor and the mayor could have signed an executive order … rescinding the sanctuary state and the sanctuary city [policies].
— Emma Colton, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2024 -
The executive order allows the U.S. to identify other areas of the Nicaraguan economy that could be subject to sanctions.
— José De Córdoba, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022 -
Business leaders praised an executive order signed by Gov. Wes Moore last week in an effort to bump Maryland’s economic growth while state officials face a $3 billion budget shortfall.
— Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 23 Dec. 2024
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