Sentence examples for imperial edict from inspiring English sources

In 1627 an imperial edict outlawed all Protestants in Bohemia.

By the 17th century an imperial edict had made the teaching of swimming compulsory in the schools.

He was faced, as a loyal official, with the prospect of disobeying the imperial edict declaring war on foreign nations.

Royal censors first banned, then heavily edited it, in part because of an imperial edict banning the portrayal of the Tsar onstage.

The coarseness and violence of the pamphlets on both sides and the public disorder attributed to their distribution led to their prohibition by imperial edict in 1589.

For 1,200 years, an imperial edict banned the eating of meat because of a Japanese Buddhist belief that it was unclean.

From the reign of Augustus (27 BC AD 14), jurists began compiling organized repositories of imperial edicts (constitutiones), and juristic scholarship became an imperially sponsored function of administration.

Indeed, imperial edicts were needed to discourage the aristocracy's participation.

That first collection of imperial edicts, however, pales before the Digesta completed under Tribonian's direction in 533.

The imperial edicts in the summer of 1898 spelled out a program that has been called the Hundred Days of Reform.

Following Confucian principles strictly, he informed his sovereign of errors and shortcomings in imperial edicts and practices, thus incurring imperial displeasure.