Sentence examples for were decreed in from inspiring English sources

Fourteen senior officials from Arab countries took part, the most since the sanctions were decreed in 1990, including Jordan's prime minister, Ali Abu al-Ragheb, above, the first Arab head of government to visit since the 1991 gulf war.

By the sixties, its edicts, as set out by early practitioners like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Little Richard, were decreed in full: rock and roll should be scrappy and instinctive, a wild and unstable expression that appears free of mediation or meddling, even (especially) when it's not.

But unity cannot be decreed in a conference chamber in Brussels.

(Another problem member is Fiji, whose latest suspension was decreed in December 2006).

The Inquisition was restored, and it was decreed in 1543 that no book might be printed or sold without permission from the church.

Still, it was decreed (in Slate) that someone who worked that hard and accomplished that much must be less admirable than aggravating and annoying.

Toward midnight, the Cabinet gave its consent, and early the next morning martial law was decreed in Teheran and eleven other cities.

Some resorts on the Red Sea have spared visitors the headache by choosing to stay on "resort time" and ignoring what is decreed in Cairo.

The law was decreed in 1516 by Munich's Duke Wilhelm IV over concerns that contaminants such as soot, poisonous roots and sawdust were being added to the beer-making process.

An elegant glass tower with a refractive facade by James Carpenter Design Associates and a Shozo Toyohisa light installation within, it is the first of a series of dramatic retail makeovers for Gucci since it was decreed in 1998 -- and set in Lucite and ultrasuede by Tom Ford -- that all 200 of the brand's stores worldwide look exactly alike.

The organisation of a Caucasus Front against Russia was decreed in May 2005 by the late Chechen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev. Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev