Sentence examples for decreeing him from inspiring English sources

Because of this his reputation has grown since the Roman and Byzantine eras, with Petrarch considering him second only to Homer and Aristotle decreeing him a tragic "model" only just behind Sophocles.

The judge, whose hands-on resolution of the Drexel case decreed him a control freak of the best-intentioned sort, is tickled by the illusion.

They had also demanded that Morsi rescind decrees giving him near absolute powers.

Perhaps Cameron really can escape the fate decreed for him by recent history after all.

The former was made under the auspices of the Dogme 95 rules, from the film-makers' club invented by Lars von Trier, in which directors had to adhere to 10 commandments of film-making, as decreed by him.

In a very real sense, he was a young man, like any young man, on an adventure, a brief detour from the life his father had decreed for him of ministering in a quiet, country parsonage.

His height – he reminds us every five minutes – prompted evil ballet overlords across the land to decree that for him to dance would be an abomination.

"High-necked sherts," she decrees, before coaching him how to walk into a room, make eye contact and say his name without stuttering, becoming breathless or curling slowly into a passive ball.

In October, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who ousted a democratically elected President last year and then won a democratic election to replace him, decreed that civilians could be tried in military courts — an unprecedented expansion of the military's authority, according to Human Rights Watch.

In October, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who ousted a democratically elected President last year and then won a democratic election to replace him, decreed that civilians could be tried in military courts—an unprecedented expansion of the military's authority, according to Human Rights Watch.

In the fall of 2012, five months after becoming Egypt's first-ever democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi signed a "constitutional" decree that gave him unlimited authority: he simultaneously appointed himself the chief of police, the chief of the military, and the head of Congress, giving himself the power to appoint or dismiss anyone within the government at only his discretion.