Sentence examples for general decree from inspiring English sources

Should a general decree appear necessary, it was determined, the commission would formulate new canons and insert them into the code.

They not only had the best record in the N.B.A., people had been talking, for a while, about the possibility that they would surpass the seventy-two wins of Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, in 1996, and become, by general decree, the best team in league history.

In Valencia a general decreed martial law and sent tanks on to the streets.

Only two canons were altered and congregations promulgated numerous general decrees.

At the same time it was decided that the cardinals' congregations should no longer make new general decrees but only instructions for the carrying out of the prescriptions of the code.

On April 19 he issued General Order No. 38, which decreed that "persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death".

But Pakistan's major political parties initially held back from openly challenging the general's decree.

A suicide bombing in Peshawar struck the home of a federal minister and killed four people on Friday afternoon, the first such attack since the general's decree.

When Buick was designing its 1939 models, Harlow Curtice, then the division's general manager, decreed a cost reduction of 10percentt.

On Monday evening, just six days before the referendum, General Guei decreed that only children of two Ivoirian-born parents could run for president.

One was Vasily Zotov (d. 1729), who was educated outside of Russia and became the Revisor-General of Ukazes (Inspector General of Decrees) in November 1715.