Sentence examples for could be decreed from inspiring English sources

Both teams achieved clean sweeps, yet for both the tour could be decreed a failure.

It couldn't just be decreed because no one has the power to decree it," she said.

Forgetting cannot be decreed.

In other words, any opinion or action the government does not like could potentially have been decreed as "terrorism" under their warped definition.

But they could, if it hadn't presumably been decreed incorrect, light up.

You acted as if it had been decreed that you couldn't speak politely to your wife.

Later in the century it was decreed that plebeians could hold the office, and the number of quaestors was increased to four.

The sentence has been decreed.

The equally nationalistic Mr Papadopoulos believed that the prestige associated with ancient Greece could be regained by decree.

Legislation had to pass through both elected chambers, but decrees could be issued by the Council of Ministers.

Proposed consent decrees could be scrapped or overhauled in both cities, officials said, despite Justice Department investigations that uncovered systemic problems in their police departments.