Sentence examples for a decree of from inspiring English sources

In a decree of 1704, reinforced by a bull in 1715, Clement XI banned the rites.

In 1970 the French minister of justice issued a decree of grace, removing legal restrictions on Charrière's return to France.

Five days later he supported a decree of the National Convention indicting the Girondin leaders and Dumouriez's accomplices.

A decree of Louis XIV in 1696, designed to raise money, ordered all persons who bore arms to register them.

A decree of 409/408 bc orders the public inscription of this murder law, which is partly extant.

These measures, to which Hilary submitted, were endorsed by a decree of the Western Roman emperor Valentinian III.

Just for reference, an executive order is a decree of the President which has the full force of law.

In Russia he convinced Tsar Nicholas I to rescind a decree of 1844 that had ordered all Jews to withdraw from the western frontier areas of Russia.

A decree of Dec. 8, 1939, authorized Christians to take part in ceremonies honouring Confucius and to observe the ancestral rites.

Reference to Napoleon was reinstated in the title of the code in 1852 by a decree of Louis-Napoléon (later Napoleon III), then president of the Second Republic.

State Shintō was abolished in 1945 by a decree of the Allied occupation forces that forbade government subsidy and support to Shintō shrines and repudiated the emperor's divinity.