Sentence examples for military decrees from inspiring English sources

On the basis of one of his military decrees, however, Mubarak may override a decision of a High Security Court by granting an amnesty.

Among those reprieved were several top leaders of the Gamaa Islamiya, a group responsible for dozens of terror attacks in the early 1990s.At the same time, President Mubarak himself announced the abrogation, at one go, of 2,000 military decrees.

In brief remarks after the meeting with Mr. Morsi, her sole reference to the military decrees dissolving the Islamist-led Parliament and eviscerating his powers was a call for "consensus" among all sides in order "to work on a new constitution and Parliament, to protect civil society, to draft a new constitution that will be respected by all, and to assert the full authority of the presidency".

One military decree rules that no one should voice opinions that will further "divide the public".

1962 Argentina's Congress Is Dissolved BUENOS AIRES — The government, acting under pressure from the military, decreed the dissolution of Congress last night [Sept. 6] and announced that new elections will not be held until October of next year.

In one of a series of recent steps, the military decreed that American and NATO service members should always carry a loaded magazine in their weapons, to save precious moments if attacked by Afghan forces.

That charge was in turn grounded in a 1992 military decree that had been hastily promulgated to prevent Islamist organizations from providing assistance to victims of a devastating Cairo earthquake.

The new military decree extends emergency law to cover a glut of vaguely defined transgressions that could easily be applied to legitimate protest, including "infringing on others' right to work", "impeding the flow of traffic", and "spreading false information in the media".

He was sent to trial with 27 other employees at the Ibn Khladun Centre on charges of violating a military decree banning individuals or groups from receiving foreign funding, embezzlement and issuing reports on human rights and the status of the Coptic Christian minority that "tarnished Egypt's reputation abroad".

Yet on vital security interests in the Sinai and along the Suez Canal, he pre-empted the president by issuing a military decree, demonstrating to his officer colleagues that he would not subordinate the military's vital security role to the Brothers.

So have hundreds of shops and businesses, mostly by military decree.