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 White House, in a 2022 executive order, said that can ensure projects are completed on time.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 altercation occurred when retail employees and customers were required by a state-wide executive order to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Earlier in the day, Mr. Biden signed an executive order the White House says will help strengthen access to contraception.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 23 June 2023
  • Dozens of local governments across the state issued executive orders to block migrants from moving there.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The speedy screenings were among Trump-era immigration polices that Biden rolled back in a February 2021 executive order.
    — Elliot Spagat, ajc, 1 May 2023
  • In an executive order, Mr. Adams required charter bus companies to provide 32 hours’ advance notice of the arrival of a busload of migrants in the city and limited the times of day at which migrants can be dropped off.
    — Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023
  • In recent weeks, Bass has touted the city’s progress in addressing the crisis, saying her first executive order helped speed up the city’s processing of more than 7,000 affordable housing units.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Last month, president Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping executive order designed to put new controls on AI.
    — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
  • An executive order would not be enough to bring a U.S. bitcoin reserve into existence.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos,rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 28 July 2024
  • As the Financial Times reports, the president’s executive order on the matter will see more port cranes produced locally.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024
  • So what George Bush did was sign an executive order sending the National Guard into foreign deployment.
    — Robert Stewart, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Aug. 2024

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