Sentence examples for of decrees that from inspiring English sources

He also criticised the PA president, Mahmoud Abbas, for a series of decrees that undermine Hamas's responsibilities.

Even during his ill-fated earlier stint as prime minister, in 1994, he issued an array of decrees that impinged heavily on his commercial activities.

The synod was attended by many priests who almost unanimously approved a series of decrees that were warmly approved by the grand duke and aroused the enthusiasm of Jansenists in many parts of Europe.

The parliament was active in July, while the president was on vacation, and passed a raft of decrees that revised economic policy in order "to end the division of society".

Turkey has intensified its crackdown on the media since last month's attempted coup, with rights groups decrying a wave of decrees that have turned the country into the world leader in locking up journalists.

It was only when he became infatuated with a group of radical reformers, Chang writes, and began issuing a series of decrees that deeply antagonized other officials that Cixi engineered another coup and returned to power, to rule until her death.

That means the one kind of decree that Parliament cannot discuss in the last year of its term is one that changes electoral laws.

This is way, way better than the outgoing system of decreeing that the original stupid error is not only correct but written by the hand of God.

He took the unusual and unprecedented step of decreeing that people who had been captured and enslaved by his predecessors could go back to their homes and that the statues of their various gods should be returned to their original shrines to be freely worshipped.

Criticism increased last week as the new Government reversed itself on the latest of a series of economic decrees that opponents have called unconstitutional.

In the absence of permanent legislation, the government has issued a series of temporary decrees that are intended to regulate research.