Sentence examples similar to an edict was declared from inspiring English sources

A fatwa, or edict, was declared against it and word began to filter down to the villages.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria (near Geyre, Turkey), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

Tuberculosis has been declared a global emergency.

We are declaring an emergency".

Under the emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century ad a "perpetual edict" was codified and published.

A similar edict was issued in Balochistan's Omara district.

Peace was concluded in August 1570, and a very liberal edict was granted the Protestants.

Grommet says "it's not an edict that's been delivered to us from on high.

In the judgment of the historian David Potter, the edict was "an act of economic lunacy".

The Edict was a bold move.

The Californian edict was a boon to fuel-cell research.