Sentence examples for decree power from inspiring English sources

The law on universities was one in a series of measures — including one granting the president decree power for 18 months — approved in December by the National Assembly.

Taken as a whole, the measures suggested that Mr Chavez had disregarded calls by the opposition and the private sector to use his decree power with moderation.

So the government of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has used its decree power to begin the process of identifying and registering the black settlements.

In return, the Catholic Centre Party, which held the balance of power in the Reichstag and had voted for the Enabling Act giving Hitler decree power, was "voluntarily" to disband itself.This is a fair summary.

Legislators have granted Mr. Chávez decree powers three times during his 12-year presidency.

The decree powers were the pseudolegal base from which Hitler carried out the first steps of the Nazi revolution.

And he must stop trying to seize by decree powers that voters denied him in December's referendum.

Venezuela's supreme court has overruled the opposition-controlled congress and granted broad decree powers to President Nicolás Maduro.

But the departing assembly granted Mr. Chávez special decree powers for the next 18 months, meaning he will be able to bypass the National Assembly to enact many laws.

The Assembly voted on Tuesday to approve the decree powers in a preliminary vote, with a final vote on the controversial proposal expected later this week, Reuters reported.

This was the last measure taken by the Chautemps Cabinet under the decree powers voted by the French Parliament earlier in the summer, which expired at midnight.