Sentence examples for decrees under which from inspiring English sources

He persuaded the Convention to pass the radical Ventôse Decrees, under which confiscated lands were supposed to be distributed to needy patriots.

More than 20 mayors have defiantly kept in place decrees under which municipal police can stop and fine any women in full-body swimsuits at the beach despite the ruling from the state council that the burkini bans are a "serious and manifestly illegal violation of fundamental freedoms".

These appointments come at a tricky time for some big tech firms, amid much fretting about their market power and their use of personal data.During Mr Leibowitz's tenure, the FTC homed in on web firms' use of data, requiring companies such as Google and Facebook to sign "consent decrees" under which they agreed to strengthen their privacy programmes and submit them to regular independent audits.

With this new power he persuaded the chamber to pass the radical Ventôse Decrees, under which the régime would confiscate aristocratic émigré property and distribute it to needy sans-culottes.

Mr Hahn has won praise for negotiating a "consent decree" under which the federal government would assume some control over the LAPD.

Meanwhile, as economic pressure intensifies, Gbagbo has issued a decree under which the state becomes the sole purchaser of cocoa and handles its export to world markets.

The city recently agreed to a humiliating federal consent decree, under which a Federal District Court judge will have the power to oversee changes.

Wearing an oilworker's hard hat, he read out a nine-point decree under which the Bolivian state proclaimed its control of the country's oil and gas industry.

Those timetables were the outgrowth of a lawsuit brought by the coalition in 1989 which resulted in a consent decree, under which the agency agreed to embark on a court-supervised housing replacement program.

But the ratios of stops to population and of stops to total arrests in New York are very close to those in Los Angeles, where last summer a judge lifted a federal consent decree under which the police department had operated for the last eight years.

Genzyme, in a news release, said that the F.D.A.'s enforcement action would probably result in a consent decree, "under which a third party would inspect and review the factory's operations for an extended period and certify compliance with F.D.A regulations".