Sentence examples for then decreed from inspiring English sources

The town then decreed that Halloween had been moved to Friday, a prospect that left her as cold as that unheated house.

My uncles charmed the neighborhood and me with their take on fatherhood -- an abundance of love and an ineptness in all domains then decreed female.

Until last month the government allowed civilians injured in the no-fire zone to be taken to the larger hospital in Trincomalee, but then decreed that they must be kept inside the military area.

By mid-decade, he had established a relationship which ensured that Gala's increasingly risky acquisition costs were covered by a television pre-sale; in return, the corporation got the films for screening less than a year after their release, instead of the three-year holdback then decreed by the film trade.

In 1932, five men were jailed for their part in the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, when about 500 men and women took to the hills in defiance of the law, which then decreed those hills and open moorland the sole province of the landed gentry, enabling them to shoot grouse for a few days each August.

The U.S. Treasury then decreed that it would buy $250 billion in financial institution preferreds.

If the market doesn't give workers a fair shake, then decree one.

Then fate decreed that Celia Kramer, just out of Hunter College, be interviewed for a job as an assistant to the garden's botanists.

Then someone decreed that every film should contain at least one puking scene, no one in the industry having noticed that what was once shocking and affecting has now become a dreary visual cliche.

Then, when decreeing an end to free-rein cigarette smoking, she fails to put out the butt in her own hand.

If they don't, then simply decree yourself the victor, pack up and leave.