Sentence examples for is decreed by from inspiring English sources

There is a big difference between what is decreed by those supposedly in authority and what happens in reality.

An attack is decreed by General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), and passed on to General Mireau (George Macready) to execute.

Wahab Riaz just avoided the indignity of the most expensive spell ever: his 0 for 110 is now second on the list after Australia's Mick Lewis (0 for 113), but he did endure the humiliation of taking two wickets from no-balls, a delayed source of exasperation in this series since the no-ball is decreed by the third umpire up in the pavilion.

I focus on male full-time workers, because in practice, reemployment after mandatory retirement, which is decreed by the EESL, typically covers employees who were on full-time regular employment until the mandatory retirement age.

Classically, morality is decreed by a supreme deity -- that is, it exists as a law in the same sense as the laws of physics.

Chile's investment law of 1974 was decreed by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet and remains little changed.

Another important step was the adoption of surnames or family names, which was decreed by the GNA in 1934.

The new voting rules were decreed by the emir using emergency powers six weeks before December's elections.

Art movements are strange things: some are decreed by way of a manifesto, their antecedents declared and a purpose proposed.

The reserve was decreed by Mr. da Silva's government in 2005 after a legal battle of more more than 20 years.

In some countries the initiation of liquidation may also be decreed by the court ex officio or upon petition by public officials.