Sentence examples for orders and edicts from inspiring English sources

In fact, were his entire life not so much at the centre of fluxus, and his masochistic streak the inverse coin to his penchant for issuing orders and edicts, our interest in it would be prurient.

"This showed that, instead of creating a modern system to rule China, the government still relied on an ad hoc patchwork of edicts, orders and personal connections," wrote Johnson.

Various laws and edicts prohibit blasphemy, heresy, proselytizing and apostasy.

There are two sorts of religious edicts that alternate during the wars: edicts of pacification and provisional tolerance, and edicts of concord and union.

Laws and edicts were posted in writing as well as read out.

The document offers no new rules or marching orders, and from the outset Francis makes plain that no top-down edicts are coming.

In 1614, Pope Paul V issued a similar edict, and ordered that the child be baptized if it was still alive.

The Standing Committee for Scientific Research and for Issuing Edicts, Preaching and Guidance (SC) in Saudi Arabia is a committee of senior Islamic scholars who are allowed to issue edicts.

Channeling former Attorney General John Ashcroft's 2003 edict to deny bond to Haitian refugees, ICE lawyers in immigration courts are arguing for "no bond" orders against mothers and children fleeing gang violence, poverty and chaos in Central America.

Even the most democratically elected governments spew edicts and injunctions.

People must be guided by clear edicts and strong punishments.