Sentence examples for decree was passed from inspiring English sources

His decree was passed but rescinded the next day, in time to save Mytilene.

On June 2 the decree was passed against 29 of them.

The decree was passed in response to yet another bold attack in southern Thailand, where an escalating insurgency has claimed over 800 lives in the past 19 months.Four months ago, Mr Thaksin had promised a more conciliatory tack in restoring order, including setting up a peace panel to address local grievances.

But his opponents have mounted almost continuous protests since the decree was passed.

In France, a decree was passed allowing absinthe to be sold but only if it was not actually called absinthe.

On 27 February 1933 the Reichstag building went up in flames, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed abrogating basic civil rights and the Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler unrestricted legislative power.

The apparatus of civic government, however, remained, and, under the Seleucids, decrees were passed by council and assembly in city after city.

The immediate issue that precipitated the day's events was a vote in the Senate on the government's economic stimulus decree, which was passed in the Lower House on Thursday evening.

In 423 Kou had the title of tianshi conferred upon himself by imperial decree: the title was passed to the movement's leader from generation to generation in an unbroken line.

The decree revoked today was passed by the federal cabinet in June to clear the way for the transfer of Mr. Milosevic and other suspects after legislation regulating cooperation with the court failed to get through Parliament.

In the night sitting of Oct. 27 he proposed, at the session of the Congress of the Soviets, a draft decree about peace which was passed unanimously and another about the land, which was passed with one dissentient and eight abstentions.