Sentence examples for ordaining that from inspiring English sources

Apollo revenged himself by ordaining that her prophecies should never be believed.

The governments tried to be predictable in their succession plan for Mr Duisenberg, ordaining that, halfway through his eight-year term, he would resign in favour of Jean-Claude Trichet of the Banque de France.

Yet they showed some mettle, over the past year, in making debt and the deficit a focus of national debate; they seemed to have broken free of the old orthodoxy ordaining that any politician hoping to get elected must promise eternal increases in public spending.

This ordains that Europeans should work a maximum of 48 hours a week on average.

This cosmopolitan life, rootless, maybe, sometimes unheimlich, uncanny, ordained that home wasn't necessarily homey.

Another EU directive ordains that biofuels, hydrogen and electricity constitute 10% of transport fuels by 2020.

Nazi propagandists ordained that the showpiece game was to end as a low-scoring draw.

There is, as he says, no iron law that ordains that the Tories must inevitably recover.

Providence, they said, had ordained that the city should be built here, now.

God or nature has ordained that spare embryos shall be produced for almost every pregnancy.

"God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States," Wilson retorted.