Sentence examples for decreed from from inspiring English sources

In Chinese communist fashion, this change was not simply decreed from above.

"At Caterpillar, that situation looked decreed from the start," he said.

The other difference in Venezuela is that the alternative currencies are not local initiatives but have been decreed from the top as part of Mr Chávez's drive to impose "21st-century socialism".

"Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families," he decreed, from the west front of the Capitol.

In the early months of his tenure, Stewart convened his writers and decreed, "From now on, it's not going to be adjectival humor, where Monica Lewinsky is 'the portly pepper pot,' but about how we really feel".

God has decreed from all eternity that to some he will give the grace (special help) needed to attain eternal salvation, while the rest of mankind (the majority) will go to eternal damnation.

Computers pump out data on customers from "Heaven's Heart" and the bank's managers issue decrees from "Heaven's Mission Control".

"It can't be right that this future is decided entirely by political leaders decreeing from on high where power should lie".

But I take issue with his portrait of the pope as a heartless soul, callously passing life-or-death decrees from afar.

"That is why I won't listen as the pundits and politicians decree from on high.

This is appropriate, because it feels as if Wilson is taking his inspiration from Thomas Jefferson's "all men are created equal" decree from the US Declaration of Independence.