Many of their descendants later moved farther east into Asia under harsh decrees and policies instituted by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
When Deen is expelled from New Square for heresy — a severe sentence even in a place where harsh decrees are not unusual — the most galling of all his crimes is that he has ceased to believe in God.
When Philip, despite Egmond's personal appeal in Spain (1565), maintained his harsh decrees against Protestants, Egmond, along with William and Horne, withdrew from the Council of State (November 1565), but he remained loyal to the sovereign, giving only limited support to a league of lesser nobles formed in 1566 to petition Margaret for greater religious toleration.
Early Tuesday, a West Bank mosque was burned and vandalized, with the words "Ulpana War" scrawled on an outside wall; by nightfall, hundreds of Jews convened at Ulpana for a mass prayer in what they described as a mini-Yom Kippur, invoking the "harsh decree" from the High Holy Day liturgy.
It is for the science of the future to change, if possible, this harsh decree".
If a harsh decree ever threatens to remove a protection or to create a vulnerability, it is our duty to step in, personally, so as to ensure that care and goodness flow where, by divine decree, they must.
Among the many harsh, punitive decrees they handed down -- against the education and employment of women, betting, smoking, drug-taking, western music and kite-flying -- was a prohibition on photography of any kind.
The mayor of that harsh metropolis decrees that its canine inhabitants are unfit to mingle with the human ones, being infected with something called "snout fever," which sounds like an outtake from a Bee Gees album.
During his term, thousands of Nigerians have been killed in communal violence, while several northern states have imposed Islamic law, decreeing harsh punishments like stoning women for sex outside marriage.
A raft of executive decrees and harsh policing laws over the past 10 years has provided fertile ground for abuses like the killings of more than 6,000 young people since 1998; over a third of these were linked to security officials.
On Thursday, Mr. Assad signed decrees that repealed harsh emergency rule, in place since 1963, abolished draconian security courts and granted citizens the right to protest peacefully, though they still need government permission to gather.
