Sentence examples for flurry of decrees from inspiring English sources

Yet the army issued a flurry of decrees – threatening the media, banning demonstrations – and shut down more than 10 television channels associated with the pro and anti-government sides.

The Interior Department is recommending that President Clinton declare two national monuments in Montana, possibly the first in a flurry of last-minute preservation decrees from the White House.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Pervez Musharraf lifted the six-week old state of emergency and restored the Constitution on Saturday, after passing a flurry of constitutional amendments and decrees to ensure that his recent actions would not be challenged by any court.

After that, the Muslim Brotherhood and the county's senior judges maneuvered around one another with growing suspicion, exchanging a flurry of opposing rulings, legal decrees, threats, and accusations.

As Kafka said, what somewhere else "provokes a brief flurry of interest, here brings down nothing less than a life-or-death decree".

From there Kafka arrives at this startling observation: "What in large literatures goes on at a lower level and constitutes a not indispensable basement of the structure, here takes place in bright light; what there provokes a brief flurry of interest, here brings down nothing less than a life-or-death decree".

Crossrail is part of a flurry of openings - streets, schools, hospitals, schools, new housing estates - all finding themselves named, by appropriately undemocratic decree, after the Queen.

King Barrett's royal decree that everyone bow before him was blatantly disregarded by Jack Swagger, who put up a brief flurry of offense but fell in defeat to the 2015 King of the Ring, courtesy of the Bull Hammer.

Expect a flurry of feathers.

A flurry of meetings followed.

Why the flurry of activity?