Sentence examples for decree at least from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Chavez's majority in the National Assembly is still large enough to assure passage of an "enabling law" that would allow him to decree at least some of the sweeping measures unpopular with the opposition.

And in the Philippines, President Corazon C. Aquino is ruling by decree, at least for now.

To give some idea: several years ago the editor of a prestigious journal, Physical Review Letters, found it necessary to decree that at least the first couple of paragraphs of each published paper should be intelligible to an average Ph.D physicist not specializing in the subject of the paper.

Rio de Janeiro last year introduced a compulsory quota in its fashion shows, decreeing that at least 10% of models should be black.

Over the last six years the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decreed that at least four inductees emerge from the annual meeting of its 30-member media committee.

Later that year, however, a deputy prime minister decreed that at least 7 tons of gallium should be handed over to the fuel ministry.

William Yeomans, who served in senior positions in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division from 1978 to 2005, told VICE News last month that he thought Sessions would likely enforce consent decrees, at least at first.

It can be lifted if a judge finds that the Police Department has been in substantial compliance with the consent decree for at least two years.

"We think he is just playing along, just doing nothing," he said "We were hoping he would use the emergency decree to at least ask the people gently to please leave.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 11 — Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, appeared to yield to intense American pressure on Sunday by restoring parliamentary elections in early January, but he said his emergency decree would last at least through then, immediately raising new questions about the vote's legitimacy.

What is clear is that Bashir's attempt to scare protesters off the streets with new decrees has backfired, at least for now.