Sentence examples for could decree from inspiring English sources

But not even the Supreme Court could decree that the electorate endorsed his policies, the most conspicuous of which was the tax program he presented the other night.

Law had the benefit of working for an absolute monarchy which could decree that taxes should be paid in the form of notes issued by his new bank, Banque Générale.

Local committees could decree that an experiment should not be conducted on their premises, and the federal committee could advise the director of the National Institutes of Health that an experiment should not receive government money.

The Roman Senate could decree that all traces of his worldly existence be expunged.

Heading a large company, I could probably decree a dress code in great precision.

But the law did not, and perhaps legally could not, decree what the S.R.O.

Although judgment was given in the ordinary manner, the execution of the judgment presented certain difficulties because the courts could not decree execution against the crown and its servants.

And only humans could ever decree that a green picture of Ben Franklin should be worth a definite percentage of a concrete cow.

Even then, the president could rule by decree.

Worse, Mr Walesa loves power and, under the current constitution designed for General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the presidency would give him plenty of it: he would lead the armed forces, could rule by decree, declare states of emergency, dissolve parliament.

And because the Serbs and Albanians have broken off all dialogue, Mr. Rexhepi even offered to give up his position in favor of a United Nations administrator who could rule by decree.