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under the aegis of
Idioms and Phrases
Also, under the auspices of . Protected or sponsored by, as in The fund drive for the new field is under the aegis of the Rotary Club , or He was admitted to the club under the auspices of Mr. Leonard . The first term comes from Greek myth, where the aegis was the protective shield of Zeus. Auspices originally meant “observations of birds made to obtain omens.†It then came to be used for a sign or omen, and still later for a favorable influence. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
A class-action lawsuit seeks to punish Citibank for arbitrarily denying the applications and closing the accounts of people with Armenian-sounding last names under the aegis of fraud prevention.
It’s not a coincidence that Musk is doing this under the aegis of a fake “department†that’s named for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency and was staffed with Marc Andreessen’s help.
Peacekeeping forces - under the aegis of either the United Nations or Nato - traditionally are impartial, operate with the consent of both parties and use force only to defend themselves.
Still, the foot soldiers fell right back into line on Tuesday after the new administration made some welcome moves: enshrining a new “crypto task force,†under the aegis of the once-crypto-hostile Securities and Exchange Commission, that would seek industry input on regulatory matters; and granting a presidential pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the onetime operator of the infamous dark-web drug marketplace Silk Road.
A 2022 deal announced by Councilmember Bob Blumenfield would preserve one-third of the Bothwell property under the aegis of the Mountains Preservation and Conservation Authority.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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