Sentence examples for Two decrees from inspiring English sources

Two decrees of 1781 made Joseph popular among the commoners: he abolished restrictions on the personal freedom (serfdom) of the peasants, and he granted religious toleration.

Two decrees reconstituted the council, which advises the government on new legislation, for a new four-year term - and stated that women should always hold at least a fifth of its 150 seats.

Earlier, the first of two decrees signed by President Idris Deby confirmed: "A presidential pardon has been granted to the six French members of Zoe's Ark".

To accomplish this, the history discloses, the coup plotters had to get out the news that the shah had signed the two decrees.

Congress temporarily suspended two decrees issued by President Alan García that had helped set off recent protests by indigenous groups fearful of large oil and logging investments in the Peruvian Amazon.

He pointed to two decrees of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) that upheld the right of the Eastern churches "to govern themselves" according to their traditions, and that called for respect of Eastern church disciplines.

In its four annual sessions, the Council has promulgated sixteen decrees.

But the legislation needed to implement it is contained in eight decrees, of which four have now been approved.

President Boris Yeltsin has issued four decrees proposing all manner of changes to better the army's lot.

The former purpose has been carried out to a considerable, though not complete, extent by the sixteen decrees, whose implementation represents the work that has only started.

In three decrees, or ukases, issued in 1783, 1791, and 1794, Catherine II the Great restricted the commercial rights of Jews to those areas newly annexed.