Sentence examples for unusual decree from inspiring English sources

The Kingdom of Bahrain's Industry and Commerce Minister, Hassan Fakhro, issued an unusual decree this week: he banned the importation of a plastic face mask.

A qualified exception was the AT&T breakup in 1984, but that was unusual, a consent decree applied to a government-sanctioned monopoly.

When Deen is expelled from New Square for heresy — a severe sentence even in a place where harsh decrees are not unusual — the most galling of all his crimes is that he has ceased to believe in God.

He took the unusual and unprecedented step of decreeing that people who had been captured and enslaved by his predecessors could go back to their homes and that the statues of their various gods should be returned to their original shrines to be freely worshipped.

The unusual mode of execution was, apparently, decreed by Henry, after some thought.

It is neither so unattainable nor so unusual as the entangled immigration laws and decrees would have us believe.

It was so unusual that an amendment to the laws was introduced decreeing that it should be a no-ball.

He declared on the floor of Parliament that because the way in which Kashmir became part of India (by decree from its Hindu sovereign more than 60 years ago) was unusual, Kashmiri demands required a unique solution.

Not only was it unusual for the government to shut down the clinic, but the health minister has also issued a decree banning health care workers— or anyone — from conducting the procedure for any reason.

Now, in an unusual case of disciplinary action, the minister of defense, Sergei B. Ivanov, has dismissed a senior army commander, citing a new decree forbidding the practice.

The emperor decreed that it should be open to the public including "ignoramuses and gawkers" at a time when a library for the masses was very unusual.