Sentence examples for decree to do from inspiring English sources

In future centuries, when Europe was repeatedly forbidden by papal decree to do business with Muslim powers, Venice went right ahead, and got away with it, staying in touch with the larger world on which it depended for economic survival (it had no natural resources) and in which it took delight.

In May, the company signed a decree promising to do better and paid a $500m settlement to the agency.

In any case, the decree appeared to do nothing to deter the Bush administration from its readiness to use military force if necessary to capture or kill Mr. bin Laden.

Originally, this decree had nothing to do with startups.

She went as far as to suggest the child could have birth defects and learning problems and gender confusion because I did not lay with a man as God has decreed for women to do.

During his nearly 30 years in power, Mr Mubarak had repeatedly promised to lift the decree and then failed to do so.

Although everyone but the referee is allowed to wear sunglasses -- exclusively Reebok sunglasses by league decree -- only Blum chooses to do so.

Failure to do, the decree said, would jeopardize their own belongings.

The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the decree "renders the police helpless to do anything to protect the public" against terrorism.

The ACLU's Gabe Rottman stated in response to the directive that James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, "is trying to do by decree what he couldn't secure through our elected representatives".

Although many of Mursi's opponents also opposed the sacked prosecutor, whom they blamed for shortcomings in prosecuting Mubarak and his aides, and also want judicial reform, they say a draconian presidential decree was not the way to do it.