Sentence examples for does decree from inspiring English sources

By the way, if the FASB does decree that options must be immediately expensed, the current formulation won't allow companies to recover that expense if the options go unexercised.

What Islamic law does decree, according to Najam Haider, an assistant professor of religion at Barnard, is that "nothing should be disseminated that promotes sin.

Beaumont and Fletcher notwithstanding, the theatre has usually been ruled by solitary writers who can and occasionally do decree absolute obeisance to every word and stage direction.

Pro-choice means that the government does not decree what should be done.

The law of averages does not decree that in any random group of millions of people one or two will turn out to be Fascist dictators.

American rodeo regulations also do not decree the amount of starch required for women's petticoats (and forget mascara).

Rather, he didn't decree it; the jerk just moved the beaker.

We don't decree how they should run their businesses elsewhere, but in Singapore they must abide by the rules of the game, and that's an open, transparent system, a level playing field.

In particular, the Council did not decree that Easter must fall on Sunday.

He did not decree that some of us get to know love in both its spiritual and physical aspects, while others of us get only half of that.

Firstly, do towns decreed by design ever work?