Sentence examples for To decree for from inspiring English sources

Just four days ago, the Muslim Brotherhood kicked off a wave of protests against the military's increasingly explicit attempts to decree for itself special powers and protections under the future constitution.

Here's what 2011 prompts me to decree for 2012: New Rule Now that we have no money, and all our soldiers have come home from Iraq and they've all got experience building infrastructure, and no jobs... we must immediately solve all of our problems by declaring war on the United States.

His height – he reminds us every five minutes – prompted evil ballet overlords across the land to decree that for him to dance would be an abomination.

Again, the state steps in to decree what's good for porn-loving factory workers and the like; again, small-scale niche businesses will suffer while corporations will toe the line and flourish; again, seemingly arbitrary criteria are used to judge what is fit for human consumption.

Again, the state steps in to decree what's good for porn-loving factory workers and the like; again, small-scale niche business will suffer while profit-focused corporations will toe the line and flourish; again, seemingly arbitrary criteria is used to judge what is fit for human consumption.

The powers permit the government to revive a 56-year-old law allowing it to decree pay and work conditions for firefighters.

It would be difficult, he said, for ministers to decree how bike lanes should be built: "Ultimately a cycle lane is normally a local facility and there's a limit to how far central government should be telling councils what they do in their own patch.

Mr Bercow said it would be "in order" but that it was not for him "to decree that he should".

It is not enough for Charley to decree such conduct to be reprehensible in its own right and to promise its practitioners untoward consequences in the hereafter.

What if their divorce (or legal separation) becomes final one minute before New Year's Eve? Expect a consistent IRS to decree that they are single for the entire year, which means they can't file jointly and must file as single persons.

These reductions come on top of a €170 million cut to universities already decreed for 2015 and a €150 million cut to student aid.