Sentence examples for received a decree from inspiring English sources

In 1947, a year after Escrivá moved the organization's headquarters to Rome, Opus Dei received a decree of praise and approval from Pope Pius XII, making it an institute of "pontifical right", i.e. under the direct governance of the Pope.

Tonight, he declared that he had not received an official decree from Mr. Arafat ordering his dismissal.

He was born in Stuart, Iowa, and received a bachelor's decree in 1925 from Creighton University in Nebraska and his law degree in 1927 from the University of Southern California.

Public works concession contracts "are administrative contracts whose aim is to have all building or civil engineering works carried out by a concession-holder whose remuneration consists in either the right to operate the structure or to operate the structure as well as receive a payment" (decree no. 2009 864 dated 15 July 2009).

In addition, 1,099 officers and 436 junior officers have also received a dishonourable discharge, the decree added.

The aesthetic professions can breed pointless manias — Calvin Klein employees famously received an e-mail decreeing that every object on their desks be black or white and that "coloured flowers or plants received should be taken home at the end of the day" — but Mahdavi is relaxed about letting her interiors commingle with signs of life.

Some successfully resisted these decrees and ultimately received a dispensation from the government to continue wearing their turbans.

The one who suddenly stops dead because they've received a text message, and nature has decreed they can walk or read but not both, not simultaneously.

This appears by two laws of the code of the Burgundians; one of which inflicted a penalty on every barbarian who presumed to show a stranger the house of a Roman; and the other decreed, that whoever received a stranger should be indemnified by the inhabitants, every one being obliged to pay his proper proportion.

On May 5, 1888, a second royal decree was issue, officializing the creation of the Banco Español de Puerto Rico, which received a charter validity of 25 years.

The ban was provisionally lifted after FIFA received a letter from an Iraqi Cabinet official saying the Iraqi soccer federation had been "excluded" from the decree.