Sentence examples for Once decreed from inspiring English sources

"Look for the woman in the dress," Coco Chanel once decreed, meaning that her customer, not her clothes, should draw the eye first.

REINHARD MOHN, who built Bertelsmann from post-war dust into a global media giant, once decreed that his executives should retire at 60. Thus Gunter Thielen had been due to quit the German company's management board last month.

"These are good days for Amir Peretz, the much-maligned former defense minister," wrote a columnist at Haaretz — a newspaper, Peretz recalls, in which an article once decreed the project a "failure".

Of the other tracks on the new EP, Give You Away features Wilson in quavery voice mode, like a eunuch Bryan Ferry warbling "I'm missing a part of you" ahead of the more harshly sung chorus, "I'll give you away", the latter paraphrasing the misunderstood philosopher Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner who once decreed that "if you love somebody, set them free".

And after death, both lay claim to what Grann calls the "grisly Holy Grail among opponents of capital punishment": a verifiable case of wrongful execution, what Sandra Day O'Connor once decreed a "constitutionally intolerable event".

If baked beans are in fact non-negotiable – and Metro once decreed them to be the second best element of a FEB, although with somewhat dubious authority given that they're described as "perfect for dipping eggs into" (how?) – then is their function to provide liquidity or "tomatoeyness"?

He said he would at once decree a referendum on a new constituent assembly, and would seek emergency economic powers.

This was inevitable once Osborne decreed that four-fifths of deficit reduction would come from spending and welfare cuts but only one fifth from tax increases.

He also had strong sidelines in astrology and numerology, and was willing to act on their promptings: once he decreed that the Burmese should switch, overnight, to driving on the right (there were dozens of accidents); another mystic visitation, in 1986, caused him to abolish the currency and replace it with a new one in which notes were divisible by nine.

But lawyers fighting the legality of the amnesty decree say that once the decree is declared null and void, Mr. Zardari will be exposed to legal challenges on his eligibility as a candidate for the presidency.

* Sorry, hotel chains, but who was the genius who decreed that, once and for all, guests would have to spend a minimum of half an hour trying to figure out how the various lights and lamps in their hotel rooms can be turned ON and OFF.