Sentence examples for implement the edict from inspiring English sources
One source said officials believed it would be difficult to implement the edict, and both suggested it may have been a spur of the moment comment.
The way by which it was introduced made it more of a publicity stunt by an amateur administration acting with hastiness and little if any consultation with the very institutions that are supposed to implement the edict.
Rural Deans, or deans of Christianity as they were known in the Scottish Church, supervised the priests in the deaneries and implemented the bishop's edicts.
They were attacked by vigilantes with acid, scissors, knives and stones, but forced the Ayatollah to wait to implement his edict.
"The girls were not too excited about vacations because they knew if the Taliban implemented their edict [banning girls' education] they would not be able to come to school again.
In January 2009, as the school was closing for winter holiday she wrote: "The girls were not too excited about vacations because they knew if the Taliban implemented their edict [banning girls' education] they would not be able to come to school again.
Ayatollah Khamenei said today that Mr. Rushdie's statement demonstrated that "Western arrogance has been forced to retreat step by step". He added that "the edict, and the commitment of Muslims around the world to implement it, is showing its first results". Iran's President, Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has attempted to rebuild Iran's ties with the West gradually, has not rescinded the death edict.
"The decision and the edict of the clerics is important and compulsory and the government will implement it fully," said the spokesman.
UNICEF has dozens of international and local NGO partners who help implement relief and development programmes; almost all have had to stop working under threats of violence after the edict by the government.
The edict was largely ignored.
