Sentence examples for decreed her from inspiring English sources

There she became the focus of plots on the life of Elizabeth until Parliament decreed her execution.

Parliament decreed her infant son, Robert Stewart, as heir presumptive, but this lapsed on 5 March 1324 on the birth of a son, David, to King Robert and his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh.

She decreed in her will that her husband be the regent during the minority of her child.

"It is harder for a woman to want a life different from the one decreed for her," Maryna writes a friend back home, spelling out her predicament a little too explicitly.

The billionaire New York hotelier also decreed in her will that Trouble be entrusted to the care of her octogenarian brother, Alvin Rosenthal, but he is now reported to be refusing to take her on.

And the soprano Renee Fleming impishly decreed that her four panels should appear sideways.

She decreed that her family -- as well connected as Mr. Romulo's -- would not be allowed to have business dealings with the government.

My mother, a public school teacher, decreed that her children would instead enroll in the public system that had been desegregated a half-dozen years earlier, after Brown v. Board of Education.

Baldrige, who had earlier decreed in her Complete Guide To The New Manners For The '90s that one's surgery should never be discussed for longer than two minutes, was asked to comment about an unusual social event on Long Island: a party to watch the videotape of the hostess' gallbladder being removed.

"Look for the woman in the dress," Coco Chanel once decreed, meaning that her customer, not her clothes, should draw the eye first.

In it, she decreed that we, her family, could not have her body or attend her memorial service.