Sentence examples for decree applies from inspiring English sources

The executive decree applies to all gasoline-powered vehicles with engines smaller than 2.0 liters manufactured, imported, and commercialized in the country beginning in 2012, mandating that 60% of such vehicles must have flex-fuel engines capable of running with gasoline or E85, or any blend of both.

The papal decree applied to Jews in Rome.

DR. MERKEL: Were the so-called Kugel Decree, the Commando Order, and the NN Decree applied in Denmark while you were there?

A qualified exception was the AT&T breakup in 1984, but that was unusual, a consent decree applied to a government-sanctioned monopoly.

The group could forswear ad hoc, opaque decrees applied retroactively.

The government is a more limited body that administers the state within the bounds set by the laws, and which issues decrees applying the laws in particular cases.

Renzi said the recovery time of overdue debts would be reduced to a minimum of seven months, but investors reacted with scepticism as the decree mostly applies to new loans.

But according to legal experts, such a decree may apply, if at all, only to workers hired before Aug. 1, 1995.

It is unclear if that decree will apply to Mr. Soltan, in part because he has not yet been convicted of any crime.

Because the law administered by all except the local courts is based on English common law, decisions of the higher British courts are of persuasive value; in fact, a few statutes of the British Parliament that were declared by ordinance (decree) to apply to Zambia are in force so far as circumstances permit.

The decree will apply in the border districts of the South Kordofan, White Nile and Sennar states, according to the state-run Suna news agency.