Sentence examples for decreed as a from inspiring English sources

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

It was Thatcher who decreed, as a warning shot across the Beeb's bows for daring to criticise her style of government, that 25% of the corporation's production would go to independent producers.

Most sensationally, she entered into a bidding war with the Swiss patron Maja Hoffmann — a very early and unwavering supporter of Wilson and the Watermill — for a block of quartz Abramovic had carved and decreed as a spiritual artifact that should be pressed to its owner's head each morning.

The family of Daniel Ortúzar, inheritors of the hacienda San Antonio de Petrel, constructed a dock in 1875, which served as a fishing port for a few years, and would be decreed as a "minor dock" by President José Manuel Balmaceda in 1887.

When, if ever, should the court defer to Congress's own view of its power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to "enforce, by appropriate legislation" the amendment's provisions, even if enforcement means something more than the court itself would decree as a matter of judicial interpretation -- a preventive rather than a remedial measure, for example?

Sen. Sessions has consistently expressed his skepticism of using consent decrees as a tool to reform police departments.

In 1998, the French National Assembly decreed as much a judgment the Turks maintain can be made only by the International Court of Justice in The Hague.Britain's relationship with Turkey is less burdened by history and complexity.

Bratton has been a master 'reformer', steering controversial police departments in Oakland and Los Angeles through federal consent decrees as both a consultant and police chief.

Well, if you die because a government has decreed it as a criminal sentence, chances are you live in China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen or the USA.

Lots of lofty-sounding changes have been decreed, such as a new election law in May, which boosted the quota for women and allotted new seats to some under-represented districts.

"I can only come to the conclusion that the MoD has a large supply of Lariam, and some 'chairborne' jobsworth in the MoD has decreed that as a cost-saving measure, the stocks are to be consumed before an alternative is purchased," said Maj-Gen Thompson. Maj-Gen Thompson