Sentence examples for upon decrees from inspiring English sources

Nor will it be the last, at least not so long as the government insists upon decrees that assign to individuals the blame for what political institutions have done, and the responsibility for fixing it as well.

"The society of Islam is ultimately based not upon human volition or upon contract but upon divine decree," Mr. Pagden writes.

Upon the decree, mass rioting broke out across the Byzantine Empire demanding the return of visual art to worship.

In 1149 the Crusaders, who had conquered Gaza in 1100, built a cathedral dedicated to John the Baptist atop the ruins of the church upon a decree by Baldwin III of Jerusalem.

These decrees were agreed upon by the representatives of the German states on Sept. 20, 1819.

"O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous..

The sentence that God decreed upon the people of Judah has expired.

Elections were not held on a regular schedule; they occurred usually every five to six years, upon Emperor's decree.

Clodius then passed two laws which banished Cicero, on the grounds that he had deprived several of Catiline's conspirators of their due process (provocatio) rights when he had them executed upon a mere decree of the senate.

Russell did not tell Old John that the Prophet Shambles, blessings and peace be upon her, had decreed on tablets of stone that Danger Dave was to be sacrificed to Mighty Cthulhu, God of Mullets.

As a physician, I strive to live out one of my favorite verses from the Quran, an interfaith call to action which references the Talmud, "[Allah] decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever... saves one person -- it is as if he had saved mankind entirely".