Sentence examples for old decree from inspiring English sources

The new decree excluded some elements from the old decree that had angered the opposition, including one article that gave the president broad powers to confront threats to the revolution or the nation, wording that the opposition said gave him arbitrary authority to act.

Another article in the old decree had put beyond legal challenge any decision taken by the president since he took office on June 30 and until a new parliament was elected, a step that can only happen when a new constitution is in place.

"So there's absolutely no incentive for German brewers to let a 500-year-old decree fade into the past," Huhnholz adds.

Authorities in Iceland's Westfjords district, the scenic northwestern corner of the Scandinavian island nation, repealed a 400-year-old decree ordering the death on sight of any Basque person found in the region.

Basques wanting to visit the dramatic fjords of north-western Iceland need no longer hesitate after the district of Westfjords repealed a 400-year-old decree to kill any Basque caught in the area on sight.

The appeal picks up a legal challenge to the 21-year-old court decree that obligates the city to provide shelter to every homeless person.

The next day the council established special tribunals to judge members of the old regime.These decrees have a political purpose that goes beyond the revenge of a triumphant opposition.

With protesters blocking him from his office for more than a week and with the army declining to enforce his two-day-old emergency decree, Mr. Samak appeared increasingly isolated and his options seemed to have narrowed.

Recently there has been far more explicit talk of a "counter-revolution" as the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces tries to deploy the old emergency decrees and crack down on young protesters and foreign-funded NGOs.

Dashing the government's hopes for a quick and orderly resolution to the country's crippling financial crisis, the Argentine Supreme Court today declared unconstitutional a year-old presidential decree that has forcibly converted billions in dollar-denominated bank deposits into pesos.

The Vulcan Society of Westchester, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, complained that the process violated a 26-year-old consent decree aimed at increasing the percentage of blacks in the department.