Sentence examples for king decree from inspiring English sources

So I started riffing on this idea of 'rules for a knight.' Like, what does the king decree, you know?

Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.But in a move of rare boldness for the stately kingdom, on February 14th the 86-year-old king decreed sweeping changes in government.

The king decreed: "We all must eat of this crop, but a few of us must remember what the effect will be, to remind us that we are mad".

The king decrees that Haman should be hanged instead, and Mordecai eventually takes Haman's place alongside the king.

The king decreed that they should inhabit the countryside south of the capital extending from Ambavahadimitafo southward to Ambatolampy.

In a charter dated 25 July 1378 the king decreed that Coldingham Priory would no longer be a daughter house of the English Durham Priory but was to be attached to Dunfermline Abbey.

Private letters received or written by the pharaoh were sometimes inscribed in hieroglyphics on stone monuments to celebrate kingship, while kings' decrees inscribed on stone stelas were often made public.

At the time, I must have been reading Herodotus because it would seem to me like something out of Herodotus that a young king would decree an impossible task, be slain and yet, within the time allotted, that mythic decree would be fulfilled.

The shift, on Tuesday, was sufficiently striking that the Times sent out a breaking-news e-mail about the king's decree.

Warfare skills were thus inculcated by the nomads' way of life, and their mobility made it possible to concentrate large numbers of experienced warriors wherever a tribal chieftain or high king might decree.

The king's decree, which stipulated that from now on women should make up 20 percent of the council, came amid contradictory signals on women's rights in the kingdom.