Sentence examples for is not decreed from inspiring English sources

This aspect of Weerasethakul's work is also properly queer, showing that identity is not decreed by the state or the body, but felt and lived.

The Founders intended it to be so and for better or worse - my own sense is for the better - the structures and institutions that were set into place more than two centuries ago and have matured since, help ensure that, to use Madison's phrasing, we are not "decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next".

Clackamas District was to contain "all the territory" that wasn't decreed a part of the other three districts, located east of Twality District and north of Champooick District.

He seemed to have had a transcendental experience in that lab: "Those magnificent men with their flying machines, scouting a leading edge of technology which has an odd softness to it; outlaw country, where rules are not decree or routine so much as the starker demands of what's possible".

But a justice's job under our Constitution is not to decree what is civilized or fair or even what is moral truth; it is to follow the law.

That is not a decree that the world brims with truth.

The key issue now is not the decree itself but the division between pro- and anti-Islamists.

My job isn't to decree what they will be good at or what they will do or how they will do it.

In Chinese communist fashion, this change was not simply decreed from above.

(The Immaculate Conception was not formally decreed as dogma until 1950).

For many people, however, being gay is not a biological decree.