Sentence examples for by the decrees from inspiring English sources

Their excesses frightened the peasants, who could not have been pleased by the decrees of 8 and 13 Ventôse, year II (February 26 and March 3 , 1794, which provided for the distribution among the poor of the property of suspects.

The position of the Eastern churches was made clear by the decrees of the Quinisext Council in 692: bishops must be celibate, but ordained priests, deacons, and subdeacons could continue in existing marriages.

But Mr. Ibrahim, like other British Muslims, did not seem to feel bound by the decrees issued by people like Mr. bin Laden urging Muslims to rise up in support of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

The disappearance of the segmentation between rehabilitation facilities and sub-acute care facilities, as desired by the decrees of 2008, leads to a profound re-engineering of SSR by category of acute care.

These rates depend on the relative scarcity of money in the countries in question, and they are "fixed by the general opinion of the merchants, never by the decrees of the prince" (SL 22.10).

The Fayyad government, however, has not had much political clout, other than that given to it by the decrees signed by President Abbas.

(One of the technologies affected by the decree was the transistor, which later proved essential to computers).

Some Afghans, baffled at first by the decree and now by its implementation, quietly condemned the destruction.

By the Decree of Nueva Planta (1716), the fueros were abolished and Catalonia was integrated into Spain.

Their suits seem to have been pressed, their ties to have been knotted, not by fallible human hands but by the decree of a divine will.

(At his last session, the client had become fascinated by the decree, in Genesis, that "in sorrow thou shalt bear forth children").