Sentence examples for edict was made from inspiring English sources

It appears that the edict was made in an attempt to preserve the current price of gold and to keep the Empire's coinage on silver, Rome's traditional metal currency.

2. Which president of the United States threatened to abolish college football by executive edict unless the game was made safer? 3.

I have reason to think that, when the edict of Ferdinand and Isabella was made public, he decided to make his way to the Holy Land.

So an exception was made to Mullah Omar's edict.

The occupation of the area was made in defiance of a British government edict forbidding settlement in the territory, which was then part of the colony of New South Wales.

In all other countries edicts are merely guidelines unless their parliaments rule it be made a law.

The edicts of pacification were rescinded; Calvinist preachers faced expulsion from France, and plans were made to seize Condé and Coligny.

If changes are to be made to payment policies, that is a decision for Congress, not by administrative edict.

In the remaining countries, even if Islam is the official religion, the laws are made by a parliament or the royal court, which may or may not conform to religious edicts.

The restored monarch's political edict is comically made a metaphor for our hero's coital tumble on a laundry floor with a young laundress.

Her edict was: "Let's make sure it's on military bases, let's make sure it's in the towns that are near military bases, let's make sure it's there in rural areas, in red states".