Sentence examples for religious decrees from inspiring English sources

Some elements are abhorrent, ordering rough justice, summary execution of criminals and issuing severe religious decrees.

He also became critical of Ayatollah Khamenei, Khomeini's successor, for issuing religious decrees.

But King Abdullah has been trying to tamp down extremist ideology, including religious decrees issued by unauthorized clerics.

He sent fatwas -- religious decrees -- by fax and declared war on Americans in an e-mail beamed by satellite around the world.

The new rulers are gun-toting Islamists who issue and enforce strict religious decrees and who are thought to have links to terrorist groups, perhaps including al-Qaeda.

The man was depicted as a suicide bomber, except the sticks of dynamite around his waist were labeled "fatwas," or religious decrees.

He has issued a religious decree against terrorism and is opposed to the Taliban.

Egypt's highest religious authority, the Mufti, issued a religious decree against piracy earlier this year.

The religious decree, issued Sunday, imperils efforts to salvage legislation that would make marriage illegal for people younger than 17.

King Fahd pressed the most senior cleric, Sheikh Abdel-Aziz Bin Baz, for a fatwa, a religious decree.

The religious decree solves a longstanding problem in all-girl schools, where women had not been allowed to lead prayers.