Sentence examples for by decree rather than from inspiring English sources

Capital is allocated by decree rather than just by price.

In Washington, the spokesman for the State Department, Richard A. Boucher, said General Musharraf's action "severely undermines Pakistan's constitutional order and casts Pakistan as a country ruled by decree rather than by democratic process".

Despite signs of recovery in the euro zone, the French economy has yet to pick up and unemployment continues to rise.More tricky still, Mr Valls's unsteady control of his Socialist parliamentary majority forced him recently to push liberalising economic reforms through by decree, rather than risk defeat in a vote.

The existence of a flourishing underground organ trade in a country ruled by authoritarian decree rather than written law should not exactly come as a shock.

But he ruled by confrontation and decree, rather than consensus.

Mason replied, first, that the Exceptions Clause did not apply to the federal district, and second, that Organic Act differed from the Judiciary Act of 1789 by referring to "any final judgment, order, or decree," rather than explicitly limiting appeals to "civil cases".

The legal basis for the Cabinet was provided through Ministerial decree rather than through the more lengthy process of amending the Organic Law.

As the military régimes ruled largely by enacting decrees rather than through consultative policy development processes, health and health policies were not given priority.

Had I been a single mother by choice rather than decree, I'm not certain my parents would have been as sanguine, supportive and even encouraging as my own generation has been since our grown kids started putting the baby carriage first and the marriage later, if at all.

The only surprise was that the proposals came in the form of a draft bill to be approved by Congress, rather than presidential decree.

Some Democrats, especially western congressmen, moan that the action falls far short of the "hard" caps they want: they think prices should be explicitly linked to production costs decreed by the regulators, rather than a complicated formula.