Sentence examples for decrees of right from inspiring English sources

If the idea is to free oneself from conscious will, Brown wondered, how can the composer issue decrees of right and wrong?

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

"The president is by emergency decree getting rid of rights that we assumed that anyone within our borders legally would have.

He strengthened the social order by creating two new noble castes, putting in place further restrictions and responsibilities for each, and decreeing the right of every woman to choose her own husband.

They have forsaken the textual and historical foundations of that document in favor of judicially decreed rights of autonomy.

The controversial edict was one of the first decrees of religious tolerance in Europe and granted unheard-of religious rights to the French Protestant minority.

In 1633, the Court of Exchequer Chamber of Charles I decreed the rights of the public to two thirds of the lands on the Malvern Hills, and rights of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden and his descendants, and the Crown, to one third (quoted in the preamble to the Malvern Hills Act of 1884).

Rather than lead to a crackdown on vigilantes, the incident prompted provincial and local governments to issue decrees curtailing the rights of Ahmadis to worship.

In 2013, the government issued decrees restricting the rights of political groups to assemble and express themselves freely.

Tells about the series of decrees, which amount to a sort of Bill of Rights in reverse.

"If Congress thinks Americans are too fat," the article said, "can it not decree that Americans shall lose weight?" "Would the Bill of Rights intervene?" it continued.