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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That was signed into being through an executive order by president Donald Trump in 2020.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The new rules are being implemented as part of a sweeping White House executive order issued last October.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Rich and the rest of us know that the current border crisis is the fault of the Biden administration, which used its first weeks in power to undo the Trump administration’s executive orders and to institute its own on the border.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Remarkably, Trump issued an executive order meant to deny visas to highly skilled foreigners, many working in the tech sector.
    — Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Arizona’s governor was the latest to issue such an executive order in July.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For example, President Biden signed a racial equity executive order on his very first day in office.
    — Anika Nayak, STAT, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The signed executive order included no references to Mr. Soros.
    — Ken Bensinger, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2023

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