Sentence examples for decrees that are from inspiring English sources

The agency, he added, is still overseeing consent decrees that are a century old.

In the absence of permanent legislation, the government has issued a series of temporary decrees that are intended to regulate research.

The new censorship rules are often passed in vaguely worded measures and decrees that are ostensibly intended to protect the public.

At best, we'll be left with those consent decrees that are currently implemented by federal judges, which again, have a mixed record of success.

The Court's opinion also claims for the judiciary a prerogative I have never heard of: the power to render decrees that are in its view justified by concerns for public safety, though not justified by the need to remedy the grievance that is the subject of the lawsuit.

But he is reluctant, he said, to enter into agreements that lead to consent decrees that are difficult to follow -- such as those that dictate exactly how much lighting there must be in a prison cell -- and tie the city's hands from changing policies from year to year.

The abuses of imperial power were frequent, but innumerable examples of popular resistance to those imperial decrees that were considered as detrimental to the faith can be cited.

In the following centuries, however, Christian emperors issued decrees that were increasingly hostile to pagan cults and temples.

A number of decrees that were probably fraudulent were submitted and duly printed in local newspapers, and it is believed that in at least a few cases, newspaper editors themselves drafted fictitious edicts to suit their own agendas.

Here Berkeley ties the actual existence of created physical beings to God's decrees, that is, to his will.

This is the decree that is now before us.