Sentence examples for ordains from inspiring English sources

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

One casualty of a tougher line could be the "road map" to democracy, which ordains the holding of elections by next October.

The other is that governments are inhibited from radical reform for fear of an approaching state election.What is more, the Basic Law ordains a "uniformity of living standards" throughout the country.

This ordains that Israel's occupation shall end and that an independent Palestine shall come into being.

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

Baptists insist that the fundamental authority, under Christ, is vested in the local congregation of believers, which admits and excludes members, calls and ordains pastors, and orders its common life in accord with what it understands to be the mind of Christ.

They're from institutions that won't shake hands with a menstruating woman, steadfastly refuse to ordain a female priest or still refer in some quarters to those they have ordained as "pulpit pussy".

Faure said he only reluctantly become a bishop in case Williamson died in an accident, which would leave the group without the means to ordain priests.

Evidently, in the years since Woolf's male predecessor, Nick Anstee, exited the Mansion House in the manner of Dick Whittington, without honours, parity with Joan Collins has been ordained by a system whose overriding preoccupation, Woolf's promotion confirms, is the bestowal of establishment, not popular, approval.

He taught literature and psychology in Argentina before being ordained in 1969.

The covenant requires Anglican churches to avoid causing controversy by actions (such as ordaining openly gay bishops) which are likely to offend their more old-fashioned brethren.