Sentence examples for decree provided from inspiring English sources

Mr Allawi can rule by decree, provided that all three members of the presidency (a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurd) assent.

Along with these, the decree provided the death penalty for drug trafficking, for rape, and, in a provision that appeared to be specially drawn to cover Mr. Hussein and his associates, for any activity relating to biological or chemical warfare.

The negative response to the decree provided the first sign that some members of the political, military and business alliance that backed the coup are beginning to become uncomfortable with Mr. Micheletti's actions.

In addition, a parliament in 1314 decreed that all who remained in the allegiance of the English should forfeit their lands; this decree provided the means to reward supporters, and there are many charters regranting the lands so forfeited.

The colony was ruled by a naval government until 1885, when an organic decree provided for a French governor and Privy Council and for a General Council, representing the islands, that had some control over fiscal policies.

HOFFMANN: The contents of the first decree provided that for the purpose of uncovering organizations hostile to the Reich, if no other means were available, the person involved could receive a certain number of blows with a stick.

The list given in the decree provides a handy example of a canon.

The terms of the decree provide a sense of what provoked the harsh senatorial reaction.

He issued a decree providing for special penal laws against Jews and Poles in the Government General.

Some parts of the Bloomberg proposal would require court approval, because the city operates under a consent decree providing the homeless with a basic right to shelter.

The appointment, made last week, came more than a year after federal prosecutors and the union signed a consent decree providing for it.