Sentence examples for decreeing to from inspiring English sources

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

The Founders intended it to be so and for better or worse - my own sense is for the better - the structures and institutions that were set into place more than two centuries ago and have matured since, help ensure that, to use Madison's phrasing, we are not "decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next".

An end was decreed to "soft" credits and subsidies, leaving open the real possibility of bankruptcy.

Many statues were set up, and many honours decreed to him by the several cities.

"Fiat currency is essentially currency the government decrees to be legal tender," Willis says.

The entire Oregon Country was decreed to be covered by four administrative divisions.

Romania scraps decree to decriminalize corruption after largest protests in decades.

The institute compiled a lengthy position paper that railed against the use of consent decrees to right wrongs.

The Conners Company wishes the decrees to be affirmed.

VON BURGSDORFF: There was a governmental decree to this effect.

He created the Independent National Electoral Commission by decree to run the elections.