Sentence examples for use of decrees from inspiring English sources

The party has just reached an accord with the government to pass a bill limiting the president's use of decrees.

Laurent Joffrin, editor of the left-leaning Libération, this week accused Mr Sarkozy of installing "an elective monarchy .Yet Mr Sarkozy's planned constitutional reforms include others to make parliament a stronger counterweight: rights to oversee presidential nominations and authorise long-term military engagements abroad, as well as limits on the use of decrees.

He complained of "double standards" in his treatment by Brussels, arguing that Basescu had never been censured for his own very frequent use of emergency decrees.

In April, the Department of Justice curtailed the use of consent decrees — negotiated best-practice agreements that, in the years since the Rodney King beating, in Los Angeles, had become the primary tool for reforming chronically troubled police departments.

In the last several months, he has stepped up his use of emergency decrees and edicts to impose changes that other political parties and Greece's unions have a long history of trying to thwart.

Attackers told the elder Mr. Hershberger that he became a target because he had joined other Amish leaders in rejecting Mr. Mullet's use of shunning decrees against people who quit his settlement.

The new president has also been criticised for bypassing congress with the use of presidential decrees to appoint supreme court judges and nullify a media law that aimed to reduce the power of the giant Clarín media conglomerate, which had supported Macri in the election.

Sessions heartily cheered the Institute for leading the charge to curtail the use of consent decrees.

The institute compiled a lengthy position paper that railed against the use of consent decrees to right wrongs.

It demanded that attorneys general and state legislatures act to limit, if not outright do away with, the use of consent decrees.

Despite the release of the list, a number of beneficiaries, including Mr. Haqqani and Mr. Hassan, have denied that they had made use of the decree.