Sentence examples for decreed that if from inspiring English sources

But instead of envisioning a free market in marijuana, officials in Ohio had decreed that if the law passed only marijuana from ten predesignated farms inside the state would be available for purchase.

It decreed that if the "covered jurisdictions" wanted to change their voting procedures in any way — from redrawing district lines in the state legislature to moving the location of a solitary polling place — they first had to obtain permission from the Justice Department.

That bill decreed that if drug prices in Maine did not fall significantly by Oct. 1 of next year, a "fair pricing" commission would mandate that all prescription drugs sold in the state cost no more than they do in Canada, where drugs are generally less expensive.

Of the other tracks on the new EP, Give You Away features Wilson in quavery voice mode, like a eunuch Bryan Ferry warbling "I'm missing a part of you" ahead of the more harshly sung chorus, "I'll give you away", the latter paraphrasing the misunderstood philosopher Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner who once decreed that "if you love somebody, set them free".

One day, he decreed that if he felt your beaker had been sitting on a stir plate for too long, he had the right to remove it without letting you know.

During the time of Emperor Claudius (reigned 41 54 AD), a constitution was enacted that made the killing of an old or infirm slave an act of murder, and decreed that if such slaves were abandoned by their owners, they became freedmen.

He took one look and decreed that surgery was necessary.

By the way, if the FASB does decree that options must be immediately expensed, the current formulation won't allow companies to recover that expense if the options go unexercised.

(The so-called "Maharishi effect" decrees that if the square root of 1% of any population practises transcendental meditation, it will produce measurable improvements in the quality of life, "thus creating sustainable world peace").

The mainstream narrative on climate change decrees that if we can get the urgent political agreements in place, and produce enough turbines and electric cars quickly enough, we can "stabilise the climate" and carry on as before.

The rules of the New York Times decree that if pejorative remarks are worth reporting and cannot be attributed, they may be paraphrased, but that "the vivid language of direct quotation confers an unfair advantage on a speaker or writer who hides behind the newspaper, and turns of phrase are valueless to a reader who cannot assess the source".