Sentence examples for passed a decree from inspiring English sources

In 1624 the French Parlement passed a decree forbidding criticism of Aristotle on pain of death.

The regional government has passed a decree banning children under 14 from attending bullfights.

"Then they passed a decree prohibiting cutting the woods around Baikal, to protect it.

Last November the prime minister passed a decree in which four regional banks were saved.

It even passed a decree in the hope of nullifying one of the referendum's counts.

In 2007, the government passed a decree allowing European Union citizens to be expelled after three months if they lacked the means to support themselves.

Mr Yanukovich's supporters responded by passing a decree saying the dissolution was unconstitutional and voting against financing the elections.

He murdered Cleitus, one of his most-trusted commanders, in a drunken quarrel, but his excessive display of remorse led the army to pass a decree convicting Cleitus posthumously of treason.

For a dictator to be appointed, the Roman Senate had to pass a decree (a senatus consultum), authorizing a Roman consul to nominate a dictator, who then took office immediately.

In November, the Renzi government passed a controversial decree to save the bank and three others, and to protect depositors and senior bondholders from losing their money, even as another class of investors – thousands of junior bondholders – were wiped out.

The novelist Anthony Trollope went much further, in his satirical novel The Fixed Period, set in 1980, and published in 1882, in the last year of his life: in this he invents a utopian (or dystopian) antipodean island society which has recently passed a law decreeing that, for the common good, euthanasia will be compulsory for all its citizens between the ages of 67 and 68.