Sentence examples for decrees that she from inspiring English sources

Here it is not Bernarda but her mother, María Josefa, who returns home from her husband's funeral and decrees that she and her three daughters will seal themselves in her house for eight years of grieving.

Gautama laughs and curses her to be turned into stone, but decrees that she will be released by Rama since she at least spoke the truth.

He decrees that she will regain her beautiful form when Rama laughs at seeing her so afflicted, dried out (a reminder of the dried stream motif), without a body (the Ramayana curse) and lying on the path (an attribute often used to describe a stone).

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

What divine justice decreed that she wasn't lost and her brother was?

Moved by her rendition of a Chopin nocturne, he decreed that she should not be put to death.

In late September, Romania's Supreme Court dismissed the government argument and decreed that she could take possession of the house.

A doctor duly decreed that she is allergic to pretty much everything, including peppers, corn and aubergine, and should eat next to nothing.

In San Francisco, an assisted living resident who used a walker sued in 2008 when administrators decreed that she couldn't use the dining room buffet but instead had to be seated for table service.

She was positively ancient – 24 (age having the same meaning in Hollyoaks as dog years), and after 10 years her evil creator, Professor Phil Redmond (CBE), finally decreed that she (like us) had suffered enough.

In Charlie and Lola's third outing, 2003's I Am Too Absolutely Small for School, Lola's parents decree that she is "nearly quite big enough" to go into the classroom.