Sentence examples for decrees of the from inspiring English sources

Frederick promulgated imperial laws against heresy, based on the decrees of the fourth Lateran Council.

The trade decrees of the emperor Diocletian set regulations for determining a price for the copying of books.

He frankly refused to accept either Calvinism or the anti-Reformation decrees of the Council of Trent.

He formally annulled (1478) the decrees of the Council of Constance and condemned (1482) abuses in the Spanish Inquisition.

It is in the form of a preface to the decrees of the Fascist Grand Council over the past fifteen years which have just been published.

The Jacobites were members of a west Syrian church that refused to accept the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon concerning the nature of Christ.

By decree of the emperor, a vast spying service was organized under three special agencies.

Five days later he supported a decree of the National Convention indicting the Girondin leaders and Dumouriez's accomplices.

In February 1943, Laboratory No. 2 was established by decree of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, with Igor V. Kurchatov as its head.

These suspects were arrested by Cicero and were executed on December 5 by decree of the now-thoroughly alarmed Senate.

This version of the agreement was ratified by decree of the new President, Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier.