Sentence examples for only decreed from inspiring English sources

The government only decreed a switch to digital broadcasting; it never ordered broadcasters to transmit HDTV signals specifically, and stations are free never to do so.

Initially, the only rules decreed no biting and no eye gouging.

Many Tamils today consider that the Sinhalese have been making them pay for this indignity ever since.The trouble began in 1956, when the government passed a "Sinhala Only" law, decreeing that all official business must be in the language of the majority.

Americans might have less trouble keeping in mind occupied Tibet, the war on Chinese Christianity, the imprisonment and torture of political dissidents and members of Falun Gong, the one-child-only decree and other specimens of PRC tyranny if they didn't find Asian-on-Asian violence so deucedly boring.

Recent insolvency laws, such as those enacted in Argentina and France, provide for a unified procedure in which liquidation is decreed only after the possibility of reorganization has been found not to exist or an attempted reorganization has failed.

After visiting Cleopatra with her purple sails and sofas (reputedly an early influence on DFS sofa sales) he came home with a purple toga, which he decreed only he could wear.

But only in the case of James has it been decreed that only what is already popular in schools should be further encouraged.

On Monday evening, just six days before the referendum, General Guei decreed that only children of two Ivoirian-born parents could run for president.

The same law also decreed that only English-made cloth could be worn in England.

He suspended the civil service examinations and decreed that only Mongols could hold offices.

You could say, Look guys, Lambeth council has set up an Uber, and has decreed that only its Uber would be used in Lambeth.