Sentence examples for decree was ignored from inspiring English sources
With no one left to carry out his orders, the decree was ignored.
The Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, which promised them a homeland, in fact, decreed an Armenian state, was ignored by Europe; and three years later, meeting at Lausanne, the great powers admitted, "We can do nothing". "Homogeneous in language, in religion and physical type, the Armenians may serve as an exemplar.
The official macho rock consensus of the past 20 years decreed that 80s Bowie was an aberration to be ignored.
In an imperial decree the following month, Norton summoned the Army to depose the elected officials of the U.S. Congress: Norton's orders were ignored by the Army, and Congress likewise continued without any formal acknowledgement of the decree.
Greenpeace's Maitar says that stopping fires long-term will require the protection of peatland, and that a 2009 presidential decree banning any planting on peatland that goes deeper than 10 feet is being ignored.
In 1933, the Board of Trustees decreed that this amendment was incompatible with the primary direction that Stanford be a university of high degree and, henceforward, the amendment would be ignored!
But the decree is widely ignored, Amnesty said.
