Sentence examples for decree called for from inspiring English sources

In the spring draft last year, a presidential decree called for 168,776 men to be drafted, of whom 120,900 were destined for the armed forces.

On June 5 a presidential decree called for a referendum on this new constitution to be held on August 4. Tandja's actions elicited widespread discontent in the country as well as in the international community.

This element of the consent decree called for Microsoft to share or license on reasonable terms the software it uses for sending data between personal computer and server versions of Windows.

In 1995 a Decree called for an air quality monitoring program [ 12]; still, at the end of 2010 such program was not implemented yet [ 13].

I think President Abbas should issue a decree calling for elections and if Hamas says no, so be it".

The Pope has warned of the "unprecedented destruction" that could soon be wreaked by climate change in a worldwide decree calling for a "cultural revolution" to stop it.

Last month the government issued a decree calling for internet service providers to install costly new systems that allow the removal of offensive content without blocking a website.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was rudely reminded of this just before Christmas when he signed a decree calling for a truth commission to investigate torture, killings and disappearances during military rule between 1964 and 1985.

The decree calls for the territory's "integrated development" by the Moscow City government and construction of a building that Moscow would turn over to the federal government for the Tretyakov Gallery.

In 2005, Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a fatwa, or religious decree, calling for gay men and lesbians to be killed in the "worst, most severe way".

Earlier this year, fulfilling concerns raised by Western governments at the Tokyo Conference, where for the first time donors made it a condition that the Afghan government reduce corruption before receiving all of the money, President Karzai issued a decree calling for full details of natural resource contracts to be published, giving further impetus to his efforts.