Sentence examples for enacted a decree from inspiring English sources

When Boris Yeltsin fired Berezovsky from the Russian Security Council, the Russian president also enacted a decree Potanin has long lobbied for: removing the restrictions on foreign investment in Russian oil companies.

The retrial in the case was ordered just two weeks ago, and President Sisi recently enacted a decree allowing him to deport jailed foreigners back to their home countries.

So far, Mr. Berlusconi's government has reacted to the Parmalat scandal by enacting a decree that accelerated the process of protecting failed companies like Parmalat from creditors, so that its industrial operations can continue and jobs be saved.

The people receiving and admitting these accusations and complaints, at length, by this means, they came to enact a decree, at the motion of Dracontides, that Pericles should bring in the accounts of the moneys he had expended, and lodge them with the Prytanes; and that the judges, carrying their suffrage from the altar in the Acropolis, should examine and determine the business in the city.

The European Union has introduced new legislation setting performance standards for light commercial vehicles; Indonesia has enacted a presidential decree which imposes a moratorium on awarding any new forestry concessions; and Australia has just passed a Clean Energy Act which includes a long-debated emissions trading scheme, as well as bringing in a new carbon tax to become law in 2012.

Immediately following the military coup he enacted a state of emergency that allows the government to rule by decree and fire public employees at will.

Michigan enacted a similar law last month.

California already has enacted a similar law.

enacted a Birds Directive.

Niyazov ensured that gas-rich Turkmenistan remained one of the most isolated countries in the world, ensuring no free media, allowing little foreign travel and enacting a series of decrees that renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and members of his family.

They "saved" the babes "alive," as the scriptural words have it (Exodus 1 17) - not just refusing to enact a cruel and fatal decree, but creating the conditions of survival, according to the interpretation.