How to Use aegis in a Sentence

aegis

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  • And all of this comes under the aegis of the European Broadcasting Union, an alliance of public broadcasters from all over Europe and beyond.
    — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Dickens’s aegis, for the consolation of the stricken and the shamed.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Jones must don the aegis of a true franchise quarterback.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • For all the hate in the room that night, there was also an aegis of undiminished, undying love.
    — Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Under his aegis the Marlins won their first World Series in 1997.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Its work, however, falls under the broader aegis of the White House chief of staff’s office.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Both projects fell under the aegis of Michaels’ Broadway Video production unit.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The effort came under the aegis of Project Roomkey, a statewide program to house people during the pandemic.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • This project about the Project, so to speak, was done under the aegis of the cultural nonprofit UrbanArts.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The 1970s saw huge new industrial projects in the region carried out under the aegis of the communist youth league.
    — The Economist, 21 Dec. 2019
  • Developed under the aegis of Dover Street Market with the firm support of Joffe, her club-ready designs have proven to be a cult favorite.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Still, why hasn’t the DSO tried to hire the former music staff to assemble everyone under the aegis of the orchestra?
    — Dallas News, 11 May 2022
  • Many of these projects, and countless more, fall under the aegis of the Reliance Foundation, which Ambani established in 2010.
    — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Its lawyers threatened to sue Fontes, to keep Grayson and other down-ballot hopefuls from running under its aegis.
    — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Now was once one of many large initiatives under the aegis of a single executive.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The old comrades would now co-sponsor a bus-tour road show of rallies under the aegis of her current group, Women for America First.
    — Adele M. Stan, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2021
  • A couple of other novels appeared under the aegis of Pantheon and Grove Atlantic and were rapidly allowed to fall out of print.
    — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Part of the challenge, church officials say, is that the schools often fell under the aegis of local parishes and religious orders that kept their own records.
    — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2022
  • By all indications, Fred was a happy young mastodon, his welfare secured by a doting mother and the watchful aegis of his aunts.
    — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
  • Backyard Worlds is operated under the aegis of the Zooniverse, a set of about 100 citizen science projects.
    — Jesse Emspak, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Backyard Worlds is operated under the aegis of the Zooniverse, a set of about 100 citizen science projects.
    — Jesse Emspak, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Most of the American foreign aid to Mexico is provided under the aegis of the initiative.
    — Gardiner Harris and Kirk Semple, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Under the aegis of novelist and screenwriter David Nicholls, each installment takes on a different style and tone, too.
    — Sonia Saraiya, HWD, 9 May 2018
  • All of this is under the aegis of free speech, organized as correcting for wokeness and cancel culture.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2022
  • Although the awards are given in the name of the city, and under the aegis of its Housing Commission, all the money involved is collected from private donations.
    — Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • For the four branches of the US military, meanwhile, which are fully under Trump’s aegis as commander in chief, things are different.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Under Kallstrom’s aegis, the New York office became known as Trumpland.
    — Craig Unger, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Leaving was a tough decision; Patterson and her daughter were both married in St. James and her late husband was buried under its aegis.
    — Todd Richmond and David Crary, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2021
  • In many parts of Europe, it was believed that only the truth could be spoken under its branches, and so judicial hearings were held under its aegis.
    — National Geographic, 22 Apr. 2016
  • Now, the commission will operate under the aegis of the new constituyente with its untrammeled powers.
    — Fabiola Zerpa, Bloomberg.com, 8 Aug. 2017

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