Sentence examples for decrees otherwise from inspiring English sources
It can turn a youth into an idol, but even if the player dreams of starting and finishing his career in a single club, fate often decrees otherwise.
As da Ponte scripts the sequence, no single Romeo could do double duty with both Juliets, but Ms. Sweete decrees otherwise.
Fast forward to the end of June and parliament will end its working session (unless President Jacques Chirac decrees otherwise) and the nation's students will have taken their exams (unless their fractious teachers make it impossible, an outcome which might finally provoke a popular backlash).So which side will win?
Italy's sports governors decreed otherwise.
Within a few years of succeeding Donegan, Moore decreed otherwise.
She replied, telling him for the first time about her plans to remarry: "I was created to love you alone, but fate decreed otherwise".
It still seems incredible to me that, until the Court of Arbitration for Sport decreed otherwise, Fifa's power actually went that far.
Foley's subsequent murder was a cruel reminder that in the world of Isis's new caliphate, no amount of money may suffice to save a life if fanatical extremists decree otherwise.
When Macbeth arrives, she sets upon him like a bird pecking at feed, wheedling and needling him into pursing murderous ambitions that clearly would have remained beyond the limits of his imagination — hers too — if dark fate had not decreed otherwise.
He felt the typical newsman's discomfort with ad salesmen, and would have preferred to begin elsewhere, but Walter Mattson, the company's first president who was not also a family member, and whom Punch had asked to help oversee the training of the next generation of Sulzbergers, decreed otherwise.
