Sentence examples for decreeing in from inspiring English sources

He also increased the influence of Confucianism, decreeing in 1011 that temples to Confucius were to be built in all district cities.

This week the BBC threw another spadeful of dirt on the grave by decreeing in its latest style guide that Fleet Street was no longer a useful synonym for the print media.

According to a former interrogator at Guantánamo who was interviewed at length by a lawyer, behavioral scientists control the most minute details of interrogations, to the point of decreeing, in the case of one detainee, that he would be given seven squares of toilet paper per day.

"Decreeing in advance that it is impossible seems to me excessive and is worthy of being corrected".

Use of a simplified symbol associated with Saint Andrew, the saltire, has its origins in the late 14th century; the Parliament of Scotland decreeing in 1385 that Scottish soldiers should wear a white Saint Andrew's Cross on the front and back of their tunics.

The church so decreed in 1616.

From the 1860s, fashion is decreed in Paris.

The penalties were decreed in accordance with certain regulations.

But unity cannot be decreed in a conference chamber in Brussels.

Ostensibly to rationalise agricultural production, Mr Karimov decreed in October that landholdings should be consolidated.

The raid on the peace assembly took place under emergency powers decreed in September.