Sentence examples for decreed amount from inspiring English sources

So I gave each pizza one and a half times the decreed amount cheese, an amount worthy of someone's hard-earned $10.99 plus tax, delivery and tip.

The Times editorial page, which generally supports the Mayor, rightly decreed the amount "obscene".

American rodeo regulations also do not decree the amount of starch required for women's petticoats (and forget mascara).

In an op-ed for USA Today last week, Sessions wrote that consent decrees could amount to "harmful federal intrusion" that could "cost more lives by handcuffing the police instead of the criminals".

Asked if the decrees amounted to racism, Valls said: "No, that's a bad interpretation".

Nevertheless, Maupeou's decrees amounted to a coup d'état against the hereditary noblesse de robe, which he began to replace with appointed, salaried judges.

Critics said that decree amounted to a form of martial law.

That money went to the record company, Chrysalis, who paid Blondie a proportion of it – the amount decreed by Blondie's record deal.

Well, it almost made sense a few years ago, when veggie oils were cheaper and Congress decreed that a certain amount of diesel was to be of the renewable kind.

The state decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana 35 years ago and decreed that people would be arrested for those amounts only if they were displaying the drug in public.

Despite the fact that he would have been briefed beforehand that such messages were pre-recorded, Mr Putin couldn't help but react and asked the screen: "How quickly did the fire spread?" He quickly recovered after the presenter gently reminded him the woman would not be able to hear, and decreed – seemingly on the spot – amounts of compensation to be paid to those affected by the fires.