Sentence examples for council decree from inspiring English sources

"The presidential council decree to execute Ali Hassan al-Majid was approved," said Laith Shubbar, an aide to Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi.

The Youth Coalition had called for a million people to go to the streets, protesting a mooted Military Council decree to ban protests and strikes, and demanding that Mubarak-regime officials be put on trial.

Next, the protest moved to the Moree Baths, where the activists were eventually successful in gaining entry for about 26 local Aboriginal kids who were otherwise banned by a 1955 council decree from swimming in the pool outside of school hours.

Nor did the Council decree that Easter must never coincide with Nisan 14 (the first Day of Unleavened Bread, now commonly called "Passover") in the Hebrew calendar.

"Avoid aesthetically unsuitable names," like Gaswork Road, the council decreed.

Football's most romantic story had its happy ending, and the council decreed that joy be unconfined.

Instead, the council decreed that there would be a second public vote to choose the members of the 60-person constitutional panel.

The outgoing ruling council decreed that no candidate for prime minister should have either a foreign passport or a foreign spouse, thus forcing a series of prominent returnees either to withdraw their candidacy or to disavow a second nationality.

Two years earlier, after an outbreak in which more than 30,000 Londoners had died, the privy council decreed that public playing should cease once the number of those who died every week of plague rose "above the number of 30".

The council decreed that all citizens should have freedom of conscience and no one should be compelled to attend either the Catholic mass or the new Reformed services.

Under intense public pressure, in January 1529 the council decreed that a maximum of three masses per day might be celebrated in the city and that a formal disputation between Protestant and Catholic theologians should be held in May to resolve the religious disagreements.