Sentence examples for decreed regulations from inspiring English sources

Legislation concerning what may or may not be done on Sunday is as old as the time of the Roman emperor Constantine I, who decreed regulations against Sunday labour in 321.

As a rule, regulations (decrees) are more detailed in the benefits definition than laws, and the laws are more specific than the Constitution.

Institutions that count as authoritative in a legal system create, modify, or extinguish a legal right or obligation, primarily through the production of a legal text such as a statute, decree, regulation, or judicial decision that sets it out or logically entails it.

Their fighting spirit for responsibility and sustainability regarding Atlantic bluefin tuna informed their process of catching the exploited fish; by using nets that have holes only large enough to catch the fish with appropriate weight requirements (government regulations decreed they must be over 150kg), the rest are naturally released back into the ocean.

State legislatures imposed expensive regulations that decreed minimum hospital stays.

In Sanders' view, this was due to a 1961 change in zoning regulations which decreed that New York's tallest buildings no longer had to taper towards an elegant point.

Commission regulation 2257/94 decreed that bananas in general should be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature".

It has for long had the task of giving legal advice to the government on bills, regulations, decrees, and administrative questions.

Uefa's disciplinary regulations decree that a match may be declared a forfeit if an ineligible player participates, "as long as the opposing team files a protest".

The penalties were decreed in accordance with certain regulations.

Pinochet decreed these privatisations before any regulation was put in place over the new private monopolies.