Sentence examples for edict against from inspiring English sources

There was no edict against me".

In 523 he also issued an edict against Arianism.

Across China, luxury retailers and fancy restaurants are suffering from an edict against wasteful government spending.

In the 10th century, King Edgar issued an edict against it.

Neither Islam nor Judaism, however, has an edict against accepting transplanted organs.

The Romans, the Arabs, the Jews all had an edict against debt.

There were edicts against drinking and smoking.

This ordinance became the model for later edicts against dueling.

The Inquisition issued edicts against them on three occasions (1568, 1574, and 1623).

We think of official religions censoring the unorthodox, and of totalitarian states issuing edicts against anything threatens centralized control.

And though he claimed to follow the purest form of Islam, many scholars insisted that he was glossing over the faith's edicts against killing innocents and civilians.