Sentence examples for decrees that have from inspiring English sources

Sotheby's calls the laws "hopelessly ambiguous French colonial decrees" that have no force today.

The president also has the right to issue reglamentos (executive decrees) that have the effect of law.

When the legislature fails to pass the president's legislative initiatives, he may issue decrees that have the force of law.

It allows the cabinet under the chairmanship of the president to issue decrees that have the force of law on matters relating to the state of emergency.

Turkey has intensified its crackdown on the media since last month's attempted coup, with rights groups decrying a wave of decrees that have turned the country into the world leader in locking up journalists.

Among American officials who profess confidence in America's course here, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Shiite cleric who is the most influential Iraqi figure, is often cited as a force for stability despite his flow of religious decrees that have pushed Shiite leaders on the Governing Council to ever more ambitious and impatient demands.

It is the President's D.O.J. that has displayed disdain for the federal consent decrees that had been used to reform dysfunctional police departments.

During the first three days of the session, the 1,000 members of the assembly stuck to a discussion of the 12 draft decrees that had been prepared in advance.

And, he promised, he will curtail his "midnight cabinet," all-night karaoke-bar-style sessions with his cronies that one aide said sometimes produced presidential decrees that had to be quickly countermanded in the light of day.

Last month, the government issued a decree that has allowed the expulsion of foreigners considered dangerous.

At issue was a papal decree that had administratively merged the observant and the nonobservant houses of the order.