Sentence examples for decree was read from inspiring English sources

As he has done on other public occasions, Mr. Wahid dozed briefly in his chair as the decree was read.

From there, edicts and decrees were read to the assembled masses, and once a year the tsar would present himself to the people.

However, an antitrust consent decree cannot be read as though its animating spirit were solely the antitrust laws...

Shortly after receiving the invitation from the San Francisco Archdiocese, the Mormon leadership in Salt Lake City issued a four-paragraph decree to be read to congregations, saying "the formation of families is central to the Creator's plan," and urging members to become involved with the cause.

The king issued a number of other royal decrees, which were read on state TV, that replaced the ministers of media and education.

And his brief, handwritten letter to his family on the eve of his death so moved President Nicolas Sarkozy that his first official act as president in May was to decree that it be read in all high schools in France every October.

The names of the couple were read out during the "pronouncement of decree or order under the special procedure rule", along with those of 16 other couples.

Fed up with waiting, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, said this week that he will start releasing states from the need to comply with NCLB.When Mr Bush signed NCLB a decade ago, with support from both sides of the aisle, it decreed that 100% of students should be reading and doing mathematics at the appropriate level for their ages by 2014.

The decree was never published.

So the decree was never enforced.

Neither decree was made public.