Sentence examples for decree work from inspiring English sources

Following exposure of abuses at Willowbrook State School on Staten Island (a facility for the mentally disabled) and ensuing lawsuits, Dr. Michal-Smith was appointed to the Review Committee to oversee compliance with the Courts Consent Decree, work for which he was widely praised by public officials and advocates for the disabled alike.

We're going to make the consent decree work.

The department also filed a motion for a ninety-day postponement of a decree worked out with the city of Baltimore after Freddie Gray died in police custody there.

"Decrees work best when folks at the top make it clear that they mean business, that the decree will be carried out," added Yeomans.

The dictatorial decree to work "side by side" had some dubbing Mayer not "the Steinem of Silicon Valley" but "the Stalin of Silicon Valley".

We cannot agree with counsel for the appellant that the order of the probate court was based upon consent only, and that this is a case for the application of the rule that the trustees' consent to such a decree cannot work to the prejudice of the beneficiaries of the trust.

Green, for his part, expressed skepticism that even a consent decree would work in Chicago, emphasizing that real change has to come from inside the police force.

While he deserves credit for helping negotiate the consent decree, his work on the agreement should be seen for what it was: a sensible reaction to a Justice Department ultimatum that the city had to reform its Police Department or face a lawsuit.

The evidence on just how well consent decrees actually work in the cities where they're implemented is mixed.

Official media outlets, meanwhile, have reported that the decree is working: illegal importation of banned goods has already fallen in response to the new measure.

Lawyers for the city argued that the consent decree now works against racial minorities.