Sentence examples for has passed a decree from inspiring English sources
The regional government has passed a decree banning children under 14 from attending bullfights.
Portugal has passed a decree to resume its so-called "golden visa" scheme — a program that issues residence permits to wealthy foreign investors — after it was suspended a few days earlier following a corruption scandal.
Under the pretext of clearing the overcrowded prisons, the PSD had passed an emergency decree paving the way for amnesty for hundreds of politicians and CEOs across the country who had been indicted and imprisoned for corruption.
* Scotland is said to have passed a law in 1288 allowing women to propose during leap years, as decreed by Queen Margaret of Scotland (even though she was only five at the time – and living in Norway).
The government has passed two decrees: one declaring a state of national emergency with immediate effect, the second allowing police in Paris to keep "dangerous" persons under house arrest and to temporarily close all concert halls and theaters.
The constituent assembly tasked with drafting Egypt's post-revolution constitution has passed the document as the country continues to reel from a decree that gave extraordinary powers to the president, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi.
Few prime ministers under the Fifth Republic have passed laws by decree.
For a dictator to be appointed, the Roman Senate had to pass a decree (a senatus consultum), authorizing a Roman consul to nominate a dictator, who then took office immediately.
The government has just amended the penal code and passed a decree issuing fines for citizens' groups that try to take over the job of the police.
