having no claim to the land under the aegis of the law, the cattle baron decided to claim it by force a medical study that was questioned by many because it was done under the aegis of a major pharmaceutical company

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When the Harbor Board, which owned the Baltimore, disbanded with the founding of the Maryland Port Authority in 1956, the old tug fell under its aegis. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, "The story behind Baltimore’s historic, city-owned tugboat that played many important roles in the city’s history," 10 Sep. 2020

Jean-Raymond’s own brand, Pyer Moss, will be included under the Your Friends in New York aegis, with the promise that his next fashion show will take place alongside a multiday series of events tied to the YFINY platform. Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Kerby Jean-Raymond Teams With Kering to Launch Your Friends in New York," 10 Sep. 2020

Dickens’s aegis, for the consolation of the stricken and the shamed. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "Charles Dickens at the Movies," 28 Aug. 2020

That has been the finding of another recent study published under the aegis of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, which notes that the income gap seems to be the most important source of persistent black-white wealth inequality. Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic, "The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality," 29 June 2020

The important question for any of these technological initiatives is thus not whether the data is gathered under the aegis of some centralized supervisory body but how, precisely, such a centralized system is implemented, and by whom. Gideon Lewis-kraus, Wired, "How to Make Government Trustworthy Again," 18 June 2020

The ban on non-essential travel to the EU has so far showcased voluntary coordination among member countries under the aegis of the commission, which formally has no decision-making power over the matter. Jonathan Stearns, Bloomberg.com, "Europe Prepares to Restart Travel With Rest of World in July," 15 June 2020

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, "Free of White House oversight, National Guard recruits LGBTQ members," 21 Feb. 2020

Bannon made the trips to promote GOP candidates on the Bombardier jet in October 2018, under the aegis of Citizens of the American Republic. Justin Elliott, ProPublica, "Steve Bannon’s Use of Private Jet Linked to Chinese Businessman Could Violate Campaign Finance Law," 26 Feb. 2020

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