Sentence examples for state edict from inspiring English sources

When numerous Russians asked why we were being told not to come to their country – once phrasing it heartbreakingly as, "Why don't you like us?" – I initially worried it was some sort of state edict that Putin had issued into their mind-chips to trick us.

A Russian state edict states that all Russian state companies such as gas company Gazprom have to invest 1% of their profits in R&D.

We think of official religions censoring the unorthodox, and of totalitarian states issuing edicts against anything threatens centralized control.

The dispute between the New Jersey utilities stems in part from a state water preservation edict issued on Jan . 24

As an incentive, a bounty of $25 was offered for the scalp of any Sioux found living in the state after the edict.

She was also taking in four additional children a day to baby-sit with -- in defiance of the state's own edict barring her from providing informal day care.

"The killing of Americans and their civilian and military allies is a religious duty for each and every Muslim to be carried out in whichever country they are found," his February 1998 fatwa, or religious edict, states.

In China, meanwhile, the state passed regular edicts to ban the drug, which were usually ignored.

From early times the praetor as a civil administrator issued an edict stating the procedure by which he would be guided.

Last week, the national council issued an edict stating Muslims in Malaysia should not practise yoga, as its Hindu origins might erode the Muslim faith.

He even lapsed into heresy when, at the end of 564, he issued an edict stating that the human body of Christ was incorruptible and only seemed to suffer (the doctrine called Aphthartodocetism).