Sentence examples for language decree from inspiring English sources

German nationalists protested vehemently against minister-president Kasimir Count Badeni's language decree of 1897, which made German and Czech co-official languages in Bohemia and required new government officials to be fluent in both languages.

As a task-centered body of practice, an activity follows its own inner logic and develops its own customs quite apart from what culture or language decrees.

In his famous essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell decreed that writers should "never use a metaphor … [they] are accustomed to seeing in print".

The church gave the ecumenical movement new hope and language in the "Decree on Ecumenism" (1964), one of the classic ecumenical teaching documents.

Pashto became the official language by royal decree in 1936, and literary activity has been encouraged by the Pashto Ṭolana (Pashto Society) of Kabul.

In a special session Wednesday, with mere minutes for members to read and digest the bill's language, the legislature decreed that municipalities could not pass anti-discrimination laws protecting people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The ruling judge in the case was clear: "The language of the consent decree unambiguously requires ASCAP to provide Pandora with a license to perform all of the works in its repertory".

The humdrum life of the lexicographer, patiently documenting what language is rather than decreeing how it should be, doesn't mean that the dictionary world is devoid of sensational stories.

Documents in foreign languages (such as divorce decree) must be translated into English, at least.

In his speech, he offered to withdraw an article of his recent decree whose Orwellian language giving him ill-defined powers to protect the revolution had unnerved his opponents.

In a letter to Morgan on Friday, the school said it regretted the language used in its original decree.