Sentence examples for formal decree from inspiring English sources
"formal decree" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you need to describe a formal order, rule, or law issued by someone in authority. For example, "The King issued a formal decree that all his subjects must obey."
By December 1942 it was fully governed as Romanian territory, though a formal decree of annexation was postponed until the end of hostilities.
In the address, which he concluded by reading out the formal decree, he did not indicate what the state of emergency would mean in practical terms.
A formal decree published in Tunisia's official register indicated that Suha Arafat, the widow of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, had lost her citizenship.
The police raided all her subsequent performances, and the Ministry of the Interior issued a formal decree banning Muslim women from the stage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on the same day the Kremlin issued a formal decree easing an export ban on nuclear equipment and technology to Iran, following a deal reached in July between world powers and Iran on its nuclear program.
The spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, said on Wednesday that those page-and-a-half letters were equivalent to the three-page formal decrees except "in presentation". He said the archdiocese's canon lawyers had advised that the letters provided sufficient notification of the mergers, and that providing the actual decrees was legally unnecessary.
Although the use of corporal punishment in schools is prohibited by law in China, Thailand, the Philippines and Viet Nam and in some other countries by other mechanisms such as policies, guidelines and formal decrees, it is still widely practised and culturally accepted as a form of appropriate discipline in most countries in the region, including those which have outlawed it.
The agency may now demand a consent decree — a formal order detailing anticompetitive behavior and an agreement that if the company does the same thing again, it could be fined and subject to court sanctions.
The 1855 classification was given legal status by formal government decree in 1949.
That investigation ended with two former officers on death row but resulted in no formal consent decree.
This was done with a formal ministerial decree, which was withdrawn suddenly when the press heard about it.
