noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
issue
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He tried to persuade senior clerics to issue an edict allowing him to kill President Mohammad Khatami.
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The Phoenix King issued an edict forbidding them to set foot on Ulthuan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Perpich learned how much state employees resented edicts sent down from the senior management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above me, I fear the edicts of heaven.
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Hence we see, at the end of edicts and ordinances, these words: For such is our pleasure.
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So the recommendations are a helpful guideline, not a biblical edict .
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There, I predict that any such legislative edict would be tossed out on its ear.
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Where it could, it expropriated resources by simple edict .