Sentence examples for decreed them from inspiring English sources

Most were thought to have been destroyed after Spanish officials decreed them to be idolatrous in 1583.

The state contended that neither of two rival factions met the federal standard as ongoing tribes, but federal officials decreed them one legitimate tribe.

Miners, on the other hand, were being battered by an authoritarian government that decreed them to be "the enemy within" and faced brutality on picket lines.

Like canned peaches and Crisco, a few out-of-print cookbooks have stayed in demand long after the food experts have decreed them dated.

In 1644 the Long Parliament actually forbade the public reading of these books, and three years later the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterians decreed them to be no part of the canon.

If baked beans are in fact non-negotiable – and Metro once decreed them to be the second best element of a FEB, although with somewhat dubious authority given that they're described as "perfect for dipping eggs into" (how?) – then is their function to provide liquidity or "tomatoeyness"?

Or his successor could establish the tone of his papacy by decreeing them within the first weeks of his election.

There's no cost — you can just send your stuff in," said Sean Turner of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an official sort of collective that evaluates new standards for the web and decrees them best practices.

In many ways both Johnson and Cravan shared a certain modernist restlessness — lives striving to reach a kind of terminal velocity that might outrun the fate their births had decreed for them.

The Mormon visionary reached Utah with his followers and promptly decreed that half of them would be Democrats and half Republicans: that way, their votes would never be taken for granted.

Peter Goldie (2000) is among those who have recently advocated a return to the close identification of emotions with feelings, on the ground that the divorce between them was decreed on false premises: feelings, too, can actually have intentional objects in the world beyond the bounds of the body (these are what he calls "feelings towards").