Sentence examples for decree according from inspiring English sources

What Islamic law does decree, according to Najam Haider, an assistant professor of religion at Barnard, is that "nothing should be disseminated that promotes sin.

On April 19 , 1713 Charles VI issued a decree, according to which the Habsburg lands should remain an integral, undivided whole.

More than a hundred journalists in Turkey are imprisoned, and around a hundred and fifty media outlets have been liquidated by decree, according to Reporters Without Borders.

The South African security police have beaten young people who have been detained under the Government's emergency decree, according to officials of the human rights group Amnesty International.

The government also reversed a section of the 1891 decree according to which land that had not been titled or partitioned would revert to the state if not titled within six months.

When the enemy retired and the pillaging came to an end, Pericles proposed a decree according to which the authorities of the city should put aside 1,000 talents and 100 ships, in case Athens was attacked by naval forces.

Seth Mydans (NYT AFGHANISTANN: CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIANS Conversion from Islam to Christianity, or encouraging such a conversion, is now a crime punishable by death, the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has decreed, according to the state-run Radio Shariat.

Bonaparte was still in Paris in October 1795 when the National Convention, on the eve of its dispersal, submitted the new constitution of the year III of the First Republic to a referendum, together with decrees according to which two-thirds of the members of the National Convention were to be reelected to the new legislative assemblies.

Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine, the hosts of the hit BBC show "What Not to Wear" and the people I was on my way to interview, had decreed, according to my colleague Pam, that thigh-level hems should on no account be contemplated by those careless enough to be 35 or more.

Putin awarded Vitaly Milonov, a St Petersburg lawmaker, a medal of the order "For Service to the Fatherland" in the second degree, according to a decree published last Tuesday but only reported by the mainstream media on Sunday.

Almost a year after becoming attorney general and shortly after the Department of Justice began investigating the New Jersey State Police, Mr. Verniero was reported to be adamantly opposed to being drawn into a consent decree, saying, according to notes from a meeting with his aides on May 20 , 1997 "They'd have to tie me to a train and drag me along the track before I'd sign a decree".