Sentence examples for decree instead from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kostunica, a constitutional lawyer, had failed to get a law on the transfer of Mr. Milosevic passed through the federal Parliament, reverting to a decree instead.

The states that chose not to appeal say the time has come to focus their efforts on enforcing Judge Kollar-Kotelly's decree instead of further confrontation in court.

Any creditor foolhardy enough to test the regime can expect to recover just ten cents on the dollar, the World Bank calculates.The new decree instead appoints three judges from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a 110-acre "free zone" with its owns laws, written in English and based on common-law principles.

Strictly this refinement is unnecessary, because the winning strategies are not affected if we decree instead that a player who breaks the law loses immediately; but for many games this way of viewing them seems unnatural.

It has also been commented that this action should have brought Robinson a second Victoria Cross, but he was promoted to Commander by special decree instead.

As part of a consent decree, instead of rejoining Hinds, Clinton absorbed a mostly African-American neighborhood, which increased its black student population dramatically.

The Jakarta police chief, Sofjan Jacob, ordered his men not to enforce the decree but instead to protect Parliament, according to a local television report.

Pope Agatho ruled in Wilfrid's favour, but Ecgfrith refused to honour the papal decree and instead imprisoned Wilfrid on his return to Northumbria before exiling him.

If true, this would be a major departure from Wednesday's executive order, which decreed that instead of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, kids instead would be detained alongside them.

This legislative session, he issued no emergency decrees and instead focused mostly on a few core budgetary and fiscal priorities.

Boas saw in Native American languages, which were dying out fast, an opportunity and a mission: he decreed that, instead of studying dead languages or well-known living ones, linguists would travel across America collecting verbal arcana, like botanists hunting specimens.