Sentence examples for decree over from inspiring English sources

The city and the US Department of Justice are presently negotiating a consent decree over the department's use of force practices and policies.

On Tuesday, a supreme court justice authorised another investigation for corruption and money laundering after the president issued a decree over ports that allegedly benefited a ports company.

Ayatollah Khamenei issued a decree over the weekend saying that the feast "has no religious basis and is harmful and must be avoided," his Web site and several government Web sites reported.

He still controls almost all the country's institutions, has billions of dollars to spend at will, and for the next nine months thanks to an enabling law can rule by decree over wide swathes of national life.

Last month, Peru's Congress granted special legislative powers to his government allowing it to legislate by decree over a 90-day period across five strategic areas, one of which includes water and sanitation.

Any time we make a plan to rescue [the girls] we have been ambushed," said an artillery soldier among a rescue team announced by presidential decree over the weekend.

The property administration department was created by Boris Yeltsin in 1993, when he issued a decree taking over all of the Soviet Union's Communist party property, along with choice chunks of Moscow's real estate.

The goal, the official said, was "to engage in that dialogue and to avoid the kind of confrontation that could potentially lead to the transition veering off track," while leaving the military's decree taking over Parliament's powers as a matter for Egyptians courts and politicians to decide.

"The president is elected by the public, and he is naturally the person with the power," said Osama Abdel Aziz, a managing editor at Al Ahram, though he acknowledged that Mr. Morsi "didn't receive all of his powers" because of the military's recent decree taking over lawmaking and budgetary authority.

He made few economic reforms, expanded his powers through decree, presided over rising persecution of Coptic Christians, and failed to reach out to disaffected Egyptians who only reluctantly voted for him.

A "war of decrees" over the issue continued until June 1992, when Kravchuk and Russian Pres.