Sentence examples for several decrees from inspiring English sources

Although he is a conservative, Ayatollah Shahroudi has issued several decrees in recent years calling for judicial reforms.

In addition to completing the canon of laws, he wrote several decrees (novels) on a wide range of ecclesiastical and secular problems.

On October 26 the rump Congress of Soviets confirmed the transfer of power and passed several decrees submitted to it by Lenin, including one that socialized nonpeasant private land.

The boroughs also were hit by several decrees, approved by the diets (notably in 1487 and 1497), by which landowners attached peasants to their lands, thus further reducing the peasants' ability to migrate to towns.

Mr. Putin, now five days in office as Russia's second president, has moved briskly this week to strengthen Moscow's control over the country's unruly provinces, issuing several decrees that annul specific regional laws that have been found to violate the Russian Constitution.

Moreno issued several decrees during his first days in government.

The school rules now include several new decrees: no sex, no boys and no booze.

"What the law did was make uniform a set of minimum requirements for all those companies that were subject to several different decrees," Professor Rodríguez Banchs said.

He questioned why Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo, who also signed several arms decrees when he was a senior official in the Menem administration, was not under formal investigation as well.

The announcement appeared to be part of an emerging pattern in Syria, where Mr. Assad had several times issued decrees that appeared to answer protesters' demands for greater freedom, while his security forces continued to kill and detain those who demonstrated.

The code in effect until may 2012 was from 1965 with several modifications through decrees, however still outdated and needing reforms.