Sentence examples for decree could not from inspiring English sources

Shiller gloated during committee hearings that, with Mayor Harold Washington's backing, the decree could not be stopped.

Mudfish, also known as lungfish, Kony decreed, could not be eaten because they had lazy spirits that would make the soldiers lazy too.

After being informed by a TSA agent that, pursuant to a TSA decree, he could not pass through security without submitting to a full-body scan or a pat-down search, Roberts was subjected to further questioning and eventually escorted out of the airport.

She always claims that the second time was a mistake - she thought she could get custody of Jack as soon as her fling with Charlotte Raven was over and was shocked rigid when the courts decreed she couldn't.

Brown decreed they couldn't help enforce immigration law.

To that end, he used both new and existing regulations to monitor nightclubs, including taking the cabaret law a bit of archaic legislation that decreed there couldn't be more than three people dancing in a boite without a cabaret license out of mothballs and using it to punish places full of happy feet.

One Turkish judge was nearly assassinated after decreeing that teachers could not wear scarves even on their way to work.

The Coalition Provisional Authority disappeared in mid-2004, after decreeing that contractors could not be held liable by Iraqi courts.

When people started pitching tents in K-Ville as early as December, Moneta put a stop to it, decreeing that tenting could not start until after winter break.

Afterwards she was reduced to the status of a clerk when the new authorities decreed that women could not be judges under Sharia law, which Ebadi says is used as a pretext to justify myriad abuses.

The NGOs now worry about how the Rohingyas in camps will be kept supplied.In response to pressure from Rakhines, the government has backtracked on commitments to the census's foreign sponsors the UN Population Fund and governments including Britain's and decreed that Rohingyas could not after all identify themselves as such.