Sentence examples for decree means from inspiring English sources

The decree means he can be beatified once a miracle attributed to him has been recognised.

His brief explanation of what "consent decree" means is the best I have ever read.

The decree means that any defendant accused of committing a crime on public property could be tried in a military court, a judicial system that Amnesty International says lacks due process and "cannot be seen as impartial and independent".

According to the Turkish Publishers Association, the decree means that all goods, assets, rights, documents and papers belonging to the publishers will be transferred free of charge to the Turkish treasury, with no appeal to be made, and the prospect of further publishers being shut down in the future.

The maps are to be attached to a long-overdue presidential decree meant to formalise the moratorium.

The lawsuit originally resulted in the 1996 consent decree meant to improve health care for indigent children.

His decree meant that candidates with strong party political support but who are less popular among voters at large -- such as former President Carlos Menem -- lost ground.

That case resulted in a 1994 consent decree meant to clean up the union, a task that, based on the 2009 criminal case and Mr. Walsh's report, remains far from complete.

A few months earlier, the government had published a decree meant to establish that state-owned land on the island could be used only for tourism and public utilities.

It filed the antitrust case in May 1998 after concluding that Microsoft had violated the terms of an earlier consent decree meant to keep the company from engaging in anticompetitive activity.

According to Ferdinand Schlingensiepen's biography of one of Hitler's leading critics, Dietrich Bonhoeffer*, the decree meant that "the right to privacy of communication by mail or telephone no longer existed".