Sentence examples for decrees in from inspiring English sources

Although he is a conservative, Ayatollah Shahroudi has issued several decrees in recent years calling for judicial reforms.

"The constitution gives the president the right to issue decrees in exceptional situations, out of necessity," said Elhelw.

Mr. Maliki has issued a series of seemingly inconsistent decrees in recent days about his willingness to take on militias.

They have also read to the jury one of his fatwas, or decrees, in its 52-page entirety.

His outstanding achievement, however, was the diminution of the royal councils centres of aristocratic opposition to reform which he accomplished through a series of decrees in 1717.

The war over human rights plays out more broadly as draconian Presidential decrees — in a country still without a parliament — undo the gains from the 2011 uprising.

The church so decreed in 1616.

Nursing and Midwifery Council, established by ministerial decree in 2009.

Mr. Romer said that President Lobo signed the decree in his presence in December.

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

The destruction of images by government decree in the Roman world is called "damnatio memoriae".