Sentence examples for ultimate decree from inspiring English sources

In 100 Scaurus, as senior senator, moved the "ultimate decree of the Senate" against Saturninus and his followers, who were then legally massacred.

On October 21, however, Cicero denounced Catiline to the Senate in an impassioned speech, charging him with treason and obtaining from the Senate the "ultimate decree," in effect a proclamation of martial law.

After 202 BC, extreme emergencies were addressed through the passage of the decree senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate").

In the past, the senate eliminated political rivals either by establishing special judicial commissions or by passing a senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate).

After 202 BC, the Senate responded to emergencies by passing the senatus consultum ultimum ("Ultimate Decree of the Senate"), which suspended civil government and declared something analogous to martial law.

After 202 BC, extreme emergencies were addressed through the passage of the senatus consultum ultimum ("ultimate decree of the senate") which suspended civil government, and declared something analogous to martial law.

The New Yorker, April 25 , 1925P. 1 The increasing number of brown buses seen on the Avenue wakes a fear that some dictate of business has decreed the ultimate vanishing of the green bus.

An appeal revives the underlying debate: Should shelter, as a 1981 consent decree maintains, be the ultimate safety net for those so poor, troubled or "socially dysfunctional" that they slip through the cracks of other systems?

The union leader said rules that decreed the Labour conference had the ultimate say over party policy must be followed.

As you can see, this sort of thing would be much better handled by an actual constitutional amendment that abolished the Electoral College and simply decreed that the national vote was the ultimate arbiter.

The ultimate authority in the settlement of disputes was the pharaoh, whose decrees were supreme.