Sentence examples for decreed on from inspiring English sources

Holidays have been decreed on some match days to ease pressure on creaking public transport.

But a week of escalating street battles has brought the possibility much closer.The violence erupted after Mr Morales decreed on August 28th that a referendum would be held on a new constitution.

It will probably be harder to assess the effects of the ban decreed on Sunday, and the competing views on the matter illustrate just how far apart Afghan and coalition officials are when it comes to charting a course for the war.

With support for the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) crumbling ahead of local elections due next month, Mr Maduro decreed on November 8th that as part of an "economic war" with unscrupulous businessmen, prices of electrical appliances were to be cut to their level of a month earlier.

Another diplomat described the plan as a "Hail Mary pass" attempted because Mr. Mahuad "was astute enough to realize the probability that he would not be around on Friday" if he relied only on the state of national emergency he had decreed on Jan . 6for this nation of 12.5 million.

South Korean officials this week have been privately discussing the reports of a more open approach to the country's markets, wondering what the accounts mean and whether the North is really carrying out the changes that are said to have been decreed on paper, a leading economic consultant said today.

"We will comply with the applicable Spanish decrees on this matter," said a spokesperson for Shuanghui International.

By comparison, the Bush administration imposed just three consent decrees on law enforcement.

Federal consent decrees on policing do have a mixed record, but there are plenty of success stories.

He was decreed dead-on-arrival in hospital; a heart-attack initially seemed likely.

The church gave the ecumenical movement new hope and language in the "Decree on Ecumenism" (1964), one of the classic ecumenical teaching documents.