Sentence examples for By decreeing from inspiring English sources

By decreeing a party list system of proportional representation for Euro-elections New Labour has ensured there will be no choice of candidates.

Without intending it, President Bush has bolstered Mr. Arafat by decreeing that he must go.

He once stunned citizens by decreeing a new time zone for the nation, a half-hour behind its previous one.

He centralized papal authority by decreeing that the jurisdiction over all appointments to western benefices belonged to Rome.

Or his successor could establish the tone of his papacy by decreeing them within the first weeks of his election.

The president responded to the news of the suicide by decreeing that the nation was in mourning.

Brüning now governed almost exclusively by decree.

Our witness is passed to you by decree.

The state could then manage grain production, requisitioning and distributing it by decree.

The optimistic view is that Mr Maduro wants to reform the economy by decree.

The others are renewed by decree every four months—or perhaps not; Pakistanis are rarely informed.