Sentence examples for accepted the decrees from inspiring English sources
The death of Valens in 378 at the Battle of Adrianople ended the imperial patronage of Arianism, and after Basil died on the following January 1, Gregory became the outstanding spokesman in Asia Minor of the Nicene party that accepted the decrees of the Council of Nicaea of 325.
Colonel Gardner said that there were problems with telephone communications but that he finally reached a member of General McKiernan's staff who told him that the general accepted the decree.
The Jacobites were members of a west Syrian church that refused to accept the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon concerning the nature of Christ.
And the chief of the Supreme Constitutional Court indicated that it did not accept the decree.
At about six o'clock in the evening, the king made a belated effort to quell the rising tide of insurrection: he announced that he would accept the August decrees and the Declaration of the Rights of Man without qualification.
The peoples of the existing nations in the euro zone accepted the currency virtually at the decree of their political elites.
In a statement Goldberg's family told Jewishnews that it "accepts the divine decree with love", adding that they would not be giving further statements to the press.
"I think it's just terrific as a first step to police reform," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at the University of Southern California and the author of a report for the police union that recommended accepting the consent decree and adopting similar changes.
In a decree signed on 23 March 1656, Pope Alexander VII accepted practices "favorable to Chinese customs", reinforcing 1615 decrees which accepted the usage of the Chinese language in liturgy, a notable exception to the contemporary Latin Catholic discipline which had generally forbidden the use of local languages.
In a decree Yanukovych said he had accepted the resignation of Mykola Azarov, a key ally and hardliner, and his cabinet of ministers.
His Jansenist sympathies led to his banishment from Paris in 1681, and three years later he was expelled from the Oratory for refusing to accept the anti-Jansenist decrees it promulgated.
