Sentence examples for decrees aimed at from inspiring English sources

With the promulgation by King Sosurim (reigned 371 384) of various laws and decrees aimed at centralizing royal authority, Koguryŏ emerged as a full-fledged aristocratic state.

Witnessing such dickish deeds justified by Dickensian decrees aimed at demoralizing the public is hardly an uplifting experience.

For the past two months, Indians have blocked roads and oil pipelines in protest at decrees aimed at facilitating oil exploration and development in the jungle, which they say threaten their control over their traditional lands.

Whereas Coloman did not try to convert the Jews, he issued decrees aimed at the conversion of his Muslim subjects.

This is largely in protest against specific legislation within the Decreto Antiviolenza, a decree aimed at tackling football hooliganism.

The instrument got a considerable boost in 2002 when then-president Natsagiin Bagabandi issued a presidential decree aimed at re-establishing its lost primacy.

There has been no public decree aimed at indisputably Egyptian Jews-those registered with the Chief Rabbi as members of the Egyptian community.

A few years ago President Hosni Mubarak issued a decree aimed at restoring some semblance of order to the city by creating the National Organization for Urban Harmony, a name offered without any sense of irony.

But under a 2008 government decree aimed at modernizing the taxi fleet by requiring cabs older than 25 years to be retired, the "Pad" as it is known, is slowly going the way of New York City's Checker cabs.

The general revival of the instrument has been bolstered by the government, which went so far as to issue a decree aimed at restoring its special role in the nation's cultural life.

The Vulcan Society of Westchester, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, complained that the process violated a 26-year-old consent decree aimed at increasing the percentage of blacks in the department.