Sentence examples for place decrees from inspiring English sources

More than 20 mayors have defiantly kept in place decrees under which municipal police can stop and fine any women in full-body swimsuits at the beach despite the ruling from the state council that the burkini bans are a "serious and manifestly illegal violation of fundamental freedoms".

And ministers can be induced to water down bans on smoking in public places by decreeing more areas where people can still puff away.

When Deen is expelled from New Square for heresy — a severe sentence even in a place where harsh decrees are not unusual — the most galling of all his crimes is that he has ceased to believe in God.

China had a complex costume system put in place by imperial decree.

This is an excellent way of making women accept patriarchy and keeping them in their celestially decreed place.

Rushdie went on to describe the shifts in his own writing that had taken place since the decree.

The opposition insists that the national dialogue Morsi has called for to avert the crisis cannot take place until the decree is rescinded and the referendum delayed.

As a sop to the people who thought women shouldn't be boxing in the first place, it was decreed that they wear skirts instead of shorts.

They are expected to take effect between now and year's end, he said, without specifying whether enactment would take place via executive decree or after a parliamentary debate.

Long-anticipated changes in Syria's currency and investment laws, finally put in place by presidential decree two months ago, were also widely attributed to the influence of the younger Mr. Assad.

Meanwhile, Greek banks are set to reopen Monday after a three-week closure and withdrawal limits have been relaxed, but capital controls remain in place, a government decree said on Saturday.