Sentence examples for decreed as from inspiring English sources

Urgent ban now decreed as a pre-emptive strike in case of traction.

"Paradox is the very essence of social wit and brilliancy," she decreed, as if prescribing Oscar's modus operandi.

In some cases the manner of infliction of the harm determines whether compensation is decreed, as with physical injury resulting from some failure to act, already mentioned above.

"This is the health spa of the world," Mr. Lipton decreed as he stretched his leathery, sand-flecked frame on the warm shore.

As 1 June falls on a Sunday, it was decreed as the Test rest day, even though it marks the end of the club season in Europe.

In other words, any opinion or action the government does not like could potentially have been decreed as "terrorism" under their warped definition.

Mr. Mullet has apparently nursed a grudge ever since, and the recent victims included bishops who opposed his excommunication decrees as well as people who aided those who fled from his community.

The Benes decrees, as they were called, were aimed particularly at the country's 3m Sudeten Germans, many of whom had cheered the Nazi invasion in 1938.

"Exactly, exactly," they decree as one and gleefully pose together in front of the giant, ornately framed mirror, making impressively animated swishes of their respective hips.

It would make as much sense for the court to decree, as a matter of law, what sort of batting helmet or 337*337 catcher's mask a school district should supply to its baseball team.

Mr. LaVorgna said that 100 of Mr. Bloomberg's orders related to Hurricane Sandy, and that, unlike Mr. Koch and Mr. Giuliani, the Bloomberg administration had classified emergency decrees as executive orders, making comparisons unfair.