Sentence examples for decreed with from inspiring English sources

"This will be the Crystal Room," he decreed with customary panache.

Rattled, Mr Micheletti's government responded to his presence by shutting the country down.It decreed, with just half an hour's notice, a curfew starting in mid-afternoon.

Two meals a day were decreed, with indications of the nature of the diet, the amount of water to be drunk before and after the meal, and the use of condiments.

He was not conspicuous in the struggle between the Girondins and the Montagnards (April May), but on June 2, 1793, his arrest was decreed with that of his Girondin friends.

Sadly, a smaller trickle of messages warned me that the organisers had decreed, with a right-on blend of sympathy and suggestion, that only 'real' people could be considered, and so today's Mr Atkins, plying his dangerous trade half a world away, is no more entitled to popular acclaim than his great grandfather, whose name is graven in stone on the Menin Gate.

Congress decreed with its fuel economy standards that consumers would henceforth like tiny cars.

The spokesperson, Melanie Newman, also noted that the department requires such record-keeping when it enters into consent decrees with local agencies.

"The F.T.C. has been very active on the enforcement front; we've recently entered into consent decrees with large companies like Facebook and Google, and we have pushed other companies too," Mr. Olsen said.

It brokered consent decrees with city officials in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles to rein in the blatant, and well documented abusive practices of police departments in those cities in those years.

Facebook is operating under a consent decree with regulators.

The Department of Justice and the E.P.A. are negotiating a consent decree with the district.