Sentence examples for through edicts from inspiring English sources

PAGE 6 VILLAGE COUNCILS SCRUTINIZED For generations in India, unelected councils of male elders have dominated villages, exerting control through edicts, but now they are coming under national scrutiny.

For generations, these unelected councils of male elders have dominated life in many villages, mostly across northern India, exerting social control through edicts that govern everything from marriage to property disputes.

"Because the Church had too much power and money, Henry VIII started to put through edicts to deprive the Church of its power and influence," says Steel.

With the gutting of traditional checks and balances, we are no less endangered by a President Hillary than by a President Giuliani - because any executive will be tempted to enforce his or her will through edict rather than the arduous, uncertain process of democratic negotiation and compromise.

These cities were important trade centers linking the South Asian subcontinent with the Near East and Central Asia, and facilitated the spread of Buddhism through the edicts of Ashoka.

He transformed the Great Church at Kolozsvár into a centre of anti-Trinitarianism, introduced Unitarianism at the court, secured state toleration from the Transylvanian Diet through the Edict of Torda (1568), and won many converts.

This was Bodin's wish and this is precisely what the Catholic and "very Christian King, Henry IVV, later brought to fruition through the Edict of Nantes of 1598.

It is just as though we too are governed by a kind of religious law, in which the will of God sounds through every edict, preventing even the most necessary change.

The Imams declared through this edict that those who support ISIS and any form of radical Islam are violating Muslim law and were effectively excommunicated from the Canadian Muslim community.

But reform of their terms of service is overdue.Ministers have earned some unpopularity by concentrating power in Whitehall, and through the relentless edicts they have issued.

A third approach might be to mobilise more direct political support for maternal health through specific policy edicts from the centre.