Sentence examples for After decree from inspiring English sources

Even after Decree 55 was abolished, says a report by the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, it was invoked in the trial of a journalist, Grigory Pasko.

/... Decree after decree he hammers them out like horseshoes, / One in the groin for him, and the forehead for him, for him one over the eyes, one in the eyes for him.

Following the election of Pope Leo IX early in 1049, the papacy issued decree after decree that required priests to give up their wives, barred the sons of priests from the priesthood except under certain conditions, and declared the women sexually involved with priests "unfree".

Decree after decree, what we observe is the victory of intolerant mediocrity over hard-earned merit, and civil courage.

One Turkish judge was nearly assassinated after decreeing that teachers could not wear scarves even on their way to work.

It is as though some powerful enchanter, after decreeing that the city should be hurled into the depths, had been moved by its beauty, and with a wave of his wand held it suspended above destruction".

We'd expect a pair of £149 boots to last for months after fashion editors decree that they are no longer stylish.

Merce Cunningham, who died just a month after Bausch, decreed that his company would survive him by only two years.

Car makers began to take fuel cells seriously after California decreed that, by 2004, a tenth of all cars they sold in the state must not produce emissions, on pain of being barred from the market.

Earlier this year the World Bank, which brokered the deal, suspended payments after Chad decreed that the military is a "priority sector" that can receive petrodollars.

Slower are the after-the-fact consent decrees by regulatory agencies.