Sentence examples for not decree that from inspiring English sources

In particular, the Council did not decree that Easter must fall on Sunday.

The law of averages does not decree that in any random group of millions of people one or two will turn out to be Fascist dictators.

"If Congress thinks Americans are too fat," the article said, "can it not decree that Americans shall lose weight?" "Would the Bill of Rights intervene?" it continued.

And I hope, ladies and gentlemen, that history will not decree that the House Judiciary Committee made a profound mistake in 1998 and that this body will go down in the history books as it was dominated by vindictiveness and by vengeance and by partisanship.

He did not decree that some of us get to know love in both its spiritual and physical aspects, while others of us get only half of that.

No, New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe did not decree that the chimps had all the rights that human beings have — as some observers initially thought when she granted a "writ of habeas corpus". (Generally, only prisoners use habeas corpus to petition for their freedom). By the next day, the judge had scratched out the habeas corpus reference in her order to show cause.

And who would have dared predict that David Cameron would be out tonight celebrating councils and councillors gained - if, that is, he hadn't decreed that his party must not be seen to gloat.

You can't decree laws that can't be respected".

He said: "I am proud of the fact that I run a democratic party, where I don't just decree that this or that policy will be a die-in-the-trench-type policy.

The main one is that the court didn't broadly decree that a SWAT-style raid in the service of checking licenses is unconstitutional, just that this particular one was excessive in its forcefulness.

A neat solution to a knotty problem: if it isn't around to argue about, the censor will not have to decree that this superb film should not be shown.