Sentence examples for been a decree from inspiring English sources

There has been a decree that lunch may not be eaten in the learning-support area, which has to be kept locked.

In a postgrunge Seattle, where eclecticism rules — as if there has been a decree that no unifying trend should ever again emerge and bring national attention and thousands of Angelenos to town again — Death Cab's misty chords and cold steel hooks are as much a musical center as the town has these days.

Imagine if one day there had been a decree from the Nixon Administration that all citizens must within a week pay for a hand-held device that will allow government to keep track of all your movements and to monitor your telephone calls and written messages you'd be able send from it through the air to other devices.

FRANK: It is a decree dated 2 October 1943.

To that I think the plaintiff is entitled, and there may be a decree accordingly.

Hitler's reply was a decree forbidding Germans to accept any Nobel Prize.

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

Among them was a decree granting immunity to American military and civilian personnel from prosecution for crimes in Iraqi courts.

"[Sky] chose not to do that and to issue in effect is a decree, and we've said no".

It was a decree about visa requirements, but, read out of context, it sounded as if East Germany's own borders would open.

The second was a decree "freezing" the activities of the Ahmadiyah sect, a branch of Islam with adherents in many countries but seen as heretical by some Muslims.