Sentence examples for decrees passed from inspiring English sources

In a surprise move, Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who was instrumental in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, issued a series of measures preventing Egypt's courts from challenging any laws or decrees passed since he assumed office in June.

Decrees passed during the state of emergency have the force of law and cannot be appealed.

Martial law allowed him, literally, to write his own law: his decrees passed straight on to the statute book.

The three-day conference, called to elect a 100-member commission that is to organize elections in January and hold veto powers over decrees passed by the Allawi government, was not halted.

The Convention accepted it as the French national anthem in a decree passed on July 14 , 1795

A presidential decree passed last year expanded the reserve and connected the five sanctuaries, creating a contiguous corridor of 140,000 acres.

The emergency decree passed on Friday states that feeding a patient through a tube "can in no case be suspended".

A second emergency decree passed on 27 July has resulted in the shutdown of 131 media outlets.

Cixi's final decree passed the throne to Puyi, the emperor's three-year-old nephew, who reigned as the Xuantong emperor.

He felt safe, however, protected by his past status, parliamentary immunity and the amnesty decree passed by the junta in 1978 to protect themselves against such charges.

The supreme judicial council said work would be suspended in all courts and prosecution offices until the decree passed by the president earlier this week was reversed.