Sentence examples for ignored the decree from inspiring English sources

And so powerless is Russia's outgoing president that the prison authorities simply ignored the decree and continued to hold Mokhnatkin.

Citizens who ignored the decree were arrested - dozens of protesters were taken into custody in the east of Saudi Arabia.

Last year, the Clinton administration, for example, prohibited the use of cookies on any federal Web site without permission from the head of the site's agency -- a decree that ignored the usefulness of cookies in helping visitors to a Web site remember where they have been and to ease their navigation.

However, the people of the Gwaun Valley near Fishguard in Pembrokeshire ignored this decree and carried on regardless.

For one thing, it defines a planet as an object orbiting around our sun — thereby disqualifying the planets around other stars, ignoring the exoplanet revolution, and decreeing that essentially all the planets in the universe are not, in fact, planets.

Unable to solve his country's economic problems, he hastened the drift toward rightist dictatorship by ignoring the Reichstag and governing by presidential decree.

Mugabe issued a presidential decree Thursday setting the date, ignoring the opposition of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change, which says it would be impossible to hold free and fair elections by then.

I suppose we're still asked to ignore the actual historical event, which was a senatorial decree to slay all male children on the birth of Octavian (later to be called Augustus) in 63 B.C.

Those regulations were widely ignored, and the new decree tightens the rules and increases penalties.

The alternative for the government would be to ignore the Parliament and rule by traditional tribal gatherings and by decree, he said.

"Can we possibly ignore the fact that there is an African continent that fate decreed us to be part of?" he asked.