Sentence examples for decree freeing from inspiring English sources

Not even Lincoln's decree freeing the slaves in the rebel states could fully dispel such doubt.

White slaveholders had suppressed the news of the decree freeing the slaves in Confederate territory not under Union control.

With help from the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a United States Senate report in 1975, he was assassinated in 1961 by members of the army and civilians, but turbulent years followed until 1978, when the government issued a decree freeing political prisoners.

Thursday's decree frees Mr. Morsi, his decrees and the constitutional assembly from judicial oversight as well.

The decree freed tens of thousands of inmates on Sunday, including large numbers of men and women awaiting execution for alleged political crimes, as well as murderers and petty thieves.

Mr. Timofeyev said the Soviet Government had not yet made public the decrees freeing the prisoners or offered public explanations.

The decree could free Mr. Fahmy, who holds Canadian and Egyptian citizenship and Mr. Greste, an Australian, but it would not help Mr. Mohamed, an Egyptian citizen.

The DRC has decreed free health care in the affected zones in light of the new case's confirmation.

Some believe that the Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery, while others claim that Lincoln's presidential decree was impotent, freeing no one.

The government there also signed an amnesty decree that would free prisoners convicted on grounds of politics, security or activism.

Their free-trade theories were, however, embodied in the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1786 and in the Revolutionary decree of Aug. 29, 1789, freeing the grain trade.