How To Use Decreed In A Sentence

It decreed last year that downhill courses were to be made slower and skiers required to wear less aerodynamic outfits. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, it has been decreed that concierges watch television interminably while their rather large cats doze, and that the entrance to the building must smell of pot-au-feu, cabbage soup, or a country-style cassoulet. Excerpt: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
You know as well as I do that it was decreed that normal civilities don't apply to you or your cohort.
One of the primary tasks of the Commissioners is to recover those taxes which Parliament has decreed shall be paid.
I ftiil to be diiToIv'd, yield his mortal breath; the Lord hath thys decreed) ijil not yet fee drach. The Vocal Magazine: Or, Compleat British Songster

Centuries later, as the individual countries were formed, one subdialect was decreed to be the official language of each: that of Castile became Spanish, of Tuscany, VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
The Queen has decreed her order.
She laughed, standing as cool as you please, very grateful to the eye in tussore coat and skirt, with open-necked blouse, and some kind of rakish hat displaying her thick auburn hair in defiance of the fashion which decreed concealment even of eyebrows with flower-pot head gear. The Mountebank
Unto every nation is a fixed term decreed; when their term therefore is expired, they shall not have respite for an hour, neither shall their punishment be anticipated. The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
The public wanted to retain the death penalty; parliament decreed its abolition.
After an epic legal battle the UK's top court decreed the lie was no reason not to stump up. The Sun
The great increase in the dimensions of modern class-rooms was dictated by physical hygiene; the ambient air space is measured by "cubature" in relation to the physical needs of respiration; and for the same reason, lavatories were multiplied, and bathrooms were installed; physical hygiene further decreed the introduction of concrete floors and washable dadoes, of central heating, and in many cases of meals, while gardens or broad terraces are already looked upon as essentials for the physical well-being of the child. Spontaneous Activity in Education
Even though his astrologer told him to expect an invasion in Normandy, Hitler decreed that the bulk of the German forces in the West would be based within striking distance of the Pas de Calais .
The government also decreed against excessive vanity. Times, Sunday Times
K-For is holding the line, sensibly reinforcing an ethnic divide that geography has decreed.
The court decreed that the defendant should pay the plaintiff $ 5 , 000.
As a result governments long ago decreed fluid milk sold to the public must be pasteurised.
DEFRA has decreed that a farmer bringing cattle, sheep or pigs onto his holding cannot move any stock off the farm for 20 days except direct to slaughter.
Yet existing statute law decreed that such agreements were only one factor in the balance, she said. Times, Sunday Times
A term decreed my lot I 'spy; * And, when its days shall end, I die. Arabian nights. English
If the person is considered to have been of outstanding importance to the nation then days of mourning might be decreed.
German law decreed that as soon as you crossed the border you lost your nationality, but in the eyes of the British he was still a German.
Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God. The Prince and the Pauper
But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.” LAST CALL
They adjoin the Alhambra Palace, those stately pleasure domes that the Nasrid caliphs decreed should represent paradise on earth.
The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed
With Cato's slogan ringing in their ears, with their jealousy of Carthage's economic success, the Roman senate decreed that the terms of the treaty had been violated and it duly declared war.
The dictator decreed that his birthday would be a public holiday.
But that changed when Democrats took over the House in 2007: As part of a larger program to "Green the Capitol," they decreed that the cutlery should be composted along with the food. In the House, compostable utensils replaced with old-fashioned plastic
“The only touchdown will be for the final pickup,” the captain decreed, “when everybody and everything is ready.” Archive 2010-02-01
Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Wherefore the shaman and Tummasook, who is chief, have put their heads together, and it has been decreed that we work with the women and children in dragging in the meat and tending the wants of the hunters. ' A HYPERBOREAN BREW
After an epic legal battle the UK's top court decreed the lie was no reason not to stump up. The Sun
I mean think about it, Iraq didnt even exist til britain decreed itds boundaries? Think Progress » VIDEO: Sen. Levin and Fox Anchor in On-Air Scuffle Over Iraq Plan
And what doth the presbyter more but only pronounce the sentence according to that which he who sitteth judge in the court hath decreed and decerned? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Life and death are determined by fate, rank and riches decreed by Heaven.
They decreed an end to discrimination on grounds of age.
Unfortunately the script gods have decreed that our enigmatic hero has to have someone to bonk.
The sura reads: "For that cause We decreed for the children of Israel that whoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind" Pickthall translation. Real Interfaith Dialogue Must Address the Real Issues
But he goes on, — “The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and adds, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified,’ or decreed to justify, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification.” The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
I have always thought the bylaws decreed that only newspapermen are eligible but learned in connection with this column that there is nothing in the by-laws that says this.
Loading time therefore decreed that in combat Texans fire in relays, half the men always carrying charged rifles to prevent being overrun.
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
She was decreed to be thriving, well above average. Times, Sunday Times
The people, as though they had not duly rewarded his deserts when alive, but still were in his debt, decreed him a public interment, every one contributing his quadrans towards the charge; the women, besides, by private consent, mourned The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
But its global economic importance has been snowballing since China's Communist rulers decreed an experiment in capitalist economics there in 1980.
The government decreed that a new tax beimposed.
In passing from C [x] to R J, we have first adjoined a free variable y, and then decreed that y be the multiplicative inverse of x.
Yet existing statute law decreed that such agreements were only one factor in the balance, she said. Times, Sunday Times
Although Vespasian was not a member of a high-ranking Roman family, the leges Juliae passed by Augustus had decreed that marriage between an equestrian and a freedwoman was forbidden. Caesars’ Wives
The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
The governor decreed a day of mourning.
The Catechism has not of course the authority of conciliary definitions or other primary symbols of faith; for, although decreed by the Council, it was only published a year after the Fathers had dispersed, and it consequently lacks a formal conciliary approbation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
“Verily, this my malady is mortal and the shaft of death hath executed that which Allah Almighty decreed against me: this is the last of my days in the world here and the first of my days in the world hereafter.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
We are governed by a personal living God and he has decreed the means by which we accomplish his purposes.
The galactic federation, the Christ council and the Archangelic realm along with all the Ascended Masters have decreed this.
Delvile, though their total separation but the moment before had been finally decreed, she considered as a weak effusion of tenderness, injurious to delicacy, and censurable by propriety. Cecilia
In a move to whip up popular support, he decreed the Union to be abolished.
She was decreed to be thriving, well above average. Times, Sunday Times
Fearful he might accidentally injure a resident , the supervisor decreed banishment.
Authorities decreed a 90-day period before foot and mouth restrictions could be lifted.
Nay, this doctrine does not even teach what kind of men in general God has predestinated, which is properly the doctrine of the Gospel; but it embraces within itself a certain mystery, which is known only to God, who is the Predestinater, and in which mystery are comprehended what particular persons and how many he has decreed to save and to condemn. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
The UN Security Council has decreed that the election must be held by May.
Such law suits as have been decided unrighteously shall be re-investigated by the monarch: [in case of reversal of the judgment] the judges and the winning party shall be amerced in double the amount of the fine decreed in the suit. Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya
Bithynia, in the martyry of the holy and victorious martyr Euphemia, has decreed as follows: A Source Book for Ancient Church History
After an epic legal battle the UK's top court decreed the lie was no reason not to stump up. The Sun
Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
Something to the effect that some hero or other had thrown the eponymous utensil and decreed that a town should be founded where it landed or was it that he picked up the relevant kitchenalia from where it lay on the road and took it as an omen to found a town? Languagehat.com: BISHKEK/PISHPEK.
How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society. Harlan Ellison on God
No credit was given for the work already done under Liz's direction; Oaks decreed that too much time had passed. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
Yet existing statute law decreed that such agreements were only one factor in the balance, she said. Times, Sunday Times
Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God. Vietnam: Solutions
The apostle advanceth towards his proposed end, and addeth, ‘Those whom he called, them he also justified;’ that is, according to our last exposition of the word ‘called,’ he hath purposed or decreed to justify, — to wit, in case the called obstruct him not in his way, or by their unbelief render not themselves incapable of justification. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Next, I decreed and superintended the disembarkation of the stolen slaves; and, lastly, I concluded the morning call with a request that Brulôt would _produce the five hundred doubloons and his "promissory note" for two hundred slaves_! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
A few days after the anthrax letters were postmarked, Ivins, according to the FBI, had sent an e-mail to a former colleague, who has never been publicly identified, warning: “Bin Laden terrorists for sure have anthrax and sarin gas,” and have “just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans.” The Wrong Man
The fourth point would seem the strongest, as King and Nimitz had decreed an end to the “defueled doggo fleet.” Whirlwind
And here came in once more the fabaceous maker and marker of destiny, saying that blind justice decreed, that, inasmuch as sound is wont to rise, he who was noonday The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
The government decreed that cases of political violence would be tried henceforth by military courts.
A verdict is swiftly decreed.
It was not until 1776, however, that the formal foundation of a Bibliotheca Publica was decreed at the Chapter General of the Order.
For 91 years, Nebraska state law decreed that black-tailed prairie dogs be eradicated annually.
They therefore decreed that both marks should be restored to their former positions, and amerced both parties by a negligible fine. Monk's Hood
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It was then decreed that no one should forgo holidays regularly. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, it is also decreed that the crimes of rape and attempted rape will be severely punished.
Peter the Great decreed it should be a naval base.
Likewise, also, for contempt of single capitularies which we have promulgated by our royal authority, - that is, any one who shall have broken the peace decreed for the churches of God, widows, orphans, wards, and the weak shall pay the fine of sixty solidi. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Charlemagne’s way of raising troops
The court decreed that the defendant should pay the plaintiff $ 5 , 000.
Pamiers, by Jacques Fournier in 1318, for the extirpation of the remnants of Albigensianism in the Foix region; this document is most important for the history of the Inquisition, representing as it does, and perhaps in this instance only, that particular tribunal in which the monastic inquisitor and the diocesan bishop had almost equal power, as decreed in 1312 by the Council of Vienna. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
What business is it of ours to enforce what Stalin decreed, especially when the inhabitants don’t seem to want to be part of Georgia? War Doesn’t End With Treaties « Antiwar.com Blog
It decreed that a council of representatives would elect a president and would be responsible for drafting a constitution.
Resolution 181 decreed Jerusalem to be a corpus separatum under the control of the UN. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
We need not dive into the divine counsels, those secret things which belong not to us, but attend to the revealed dictates of Christ's government and judgment, which will furnish us with an unerring guide; for what Christ has adjudged is an exact copy or counterpart of what the Father has decreed. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
A new Government Accountability Office report shows that retail gas prices have risen faster than crude oil prices, and local Exxon dealers have complained anonymously that higher prices are being “decreed from the top.” Think Progress » FTC Head Overseeing Gas Gouging Probe Was Chevron Lawyer
Did he experience a Damascene moment, a voice that decreed ‘Thou shalt draw lines?’
The dean of women had decreed that shorts in public for nonsporting purposes were Unladylike and Would Not Be Tolerated. Dream State
She was decreed to be thriving, well above average. Times, Sunday Times
For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if be had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. The Invasion | ATTACKERMAN
Yet existing statute law decreed that such agreements were only one factor in the balance, she said. Times, Sunday Times
It cannot be decreed by law. Times, Sunday Times
At daybreak, the boats returned to the shore and the merchants busied themselves with buying and selling and the transport of the goods and gear till nightfall, whilst Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. Arabian nights. English
Jansenism by the constitutionist clergy; philosophical deism by the worship of the Supreme Being, instituted by the committee of public safety; and the materialism of Holbach's school by the worship of Reason and of Nature, decreed by the commune. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
The UN Security Council has decreed that the election must be held by May.
Culture flourished in this fecund valley in 1879, when the opera house, decreed a national historic landmark in 1973, first opened.
A divorce is decreed between wave and particle which quantum theory had for ever joined together.
However, he modified his rash judgment and decreed that Consalvi and the twelve other cardinals should be deprived of their property and of their cardinalitial dignity. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The Colonial government decreed that such people not be permitted to leave the province.
The governor decreed a day of mourning.
So the emperor granted his request and decreed that one day in the year would be set aside for fools and jesters to rule.
Congress decreed only digital TVs may be sold by 2007, and telecasts must be all-digital; the method is up to broadcasters.
K-For is holding the line, sensibly reinforcing an ethnic divide that geography has decreed.
How ever, it is certain, that, by the former kind of merely illative necessity, the thing decreed will assuredly have its event. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
The government also decreed against excessive vanity. Times, Sunday Times
Lastly, Solon decreed that all those who had been condemned by the archons to _atimy_ (civil disfranchisement) should be restored to their full privileges of citizens -- excepting, however, from this indulgence those who had been condemned by the Ephetæ, or by the Areopagus, or by the Phylo-Basileis (the four kings of the tribes), after trial in the The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
The confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
The General was sentenced to 46 years in prison, the longest sentence decreed by the court.
It cannot be decreed by law. Times, Sunday Times
The great historian Henry Jackson Turner had just decreed the official closing of the frontier.
Such water commissioner or commissioners and the owners and users of such stored and supplemental waters shall be bound by the provisions of this chapter provided, that the admeasurements and distribution of such stored and supplemental waters shall in no way interfere with decreed water rights.
Stunney and his minion Zoskie et al. believe that whatever their fantasy infallible God has decreed is objective. Carry-Over Thread
In 1990, authorities in Florence decreed that horses drawing carriages in the city must wear a form of nappies.
He was appalled and immediately decreed that all patients receiving such therapy should have proper anaesthetic cover.
In 1992 she and Charles became formally separated and their divorce was decreed in 1996.
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand had decreed so in 1893 with an imperious gesture, and his arbitrary demarcation is still known as the Durand Line. The Perils of Partition
And is it made more reasonable by the fact that when I brought about the THATNESS of the evil WHATNESS decreed to come by the thatness of all else beside, I did so consentingly and aware of no 'impediments outside of my own nature'? Familiar Letters of William James I
Esth. 2: 1 relates: “Some time afterward, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he thought of Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her,” but without specifying what had befallen her. Vashti: Midrash and Aggadah.
A reversionary term decreed (though reluctante curia) to be sold for rais - ing a daughter's portion. Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]
At least one department has decreed that the form of address has become an anachronism. Times, Sunday Times
Y: Never did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
The government decreed a state of emergency.
The government also decreed against excessive vanity. Times, Sunday Times
The government has decreed that importing second-hand cars would damage the local market.
The Queen has decreed her order.
Twenty-four hours later, Rumsfeld surveyed the fate decreed by other reorganisers for his bureaucrats.
In the huddle of the Old Town, space decreed that the myriad of clubs and societies met in public venues across the town.
Likewise, also, for contempt of single capitularies which we have promulgated by our royal authority, - that is, any one who shall have broken the peace decreed for the churches of God, widows, orphans, wards, and the weak shall pay the fine of sixty solidi. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Charlemagne’s way of raising troops
It was decreed that after her divorce Diana, too, was no longer HRH.
Feudal landholdings were outlawed, at least in theory, by the Indian Constitution some 50 years ago which decreed that if one farms a piece of land for 13 years one earns the automatic right to own it.
By the Declaration of Right, upon which their title rested, it was decreed that after the death of William and Mary no person holding the Roman Catholic faith should ever be king or queen of The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
Life and death are determined by fate, rank and riches decreed by Heaven.
men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
In 1870,The Vatican Council decreed: "For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter,that by His revelation they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apotles. TEXAS FAITH: Obama, Congress, CEOs and leadership styles | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The international institutions and the government decreed that farmers could only get credit if they grew crops for export.
The UN Security Council has decreed that the election must be held by May.
Manie other ordinances were decréed touching the preseruation of forrests, and the kings prerogatiue, aduantages and profits rising and growing by the same, as well for sauing of his woods and wasts, as in pannage and agistements, greatlie to the restraint of them that might vsurpe or incroch vpon the grounds within the compasse of his forrests. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
They didn't manage it and the courts have decreed the Korean chaps forfeit the money.
Hereat she cried, "By Allah, O my lord, the wrong was with my mate and not with thee; but the Decreed chevisance doth need, nor is there flight from it indeed; so do thou abide content. Arabian nights. English
A six year tax exemption was decreed to peasants who occupied and worked farms abandoned in the Thirty Years War.
In 1986, the government of India passed a bill which increased the punishment for accepting dowry and decreed that in cases where a woman died an unnatural death, her property would devolve on her children or be returned to her parents.
The government has decreed a sharp rise in taxation for the multinational oil companies.
I suppose our new lords and masters have decreed that servants are counter-revolutionary. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
Weird and wonderful international rules, however, decreed that Billy Bingham couldn't pick him, but Jack Charlton could.
Not everything that Vatican II taught or decreed is infallible, or definitively or irreformably a teaching of the Church. Light from the East: The Russian Catholic Parish in Lyons, France
And, lastly, to the same category of measures belongs the decreed long servitude of the Abrahamites in a strange land, in which, not only the door to social enjoyments would be shut against them, but a barbarous tyranny would also deprive them of the free exercise of acts which are an imprescriptible right of all mortals. A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
Trent, however, decreed that "it shall not henceforth be lawful for abbots, ... howsoever exempted, ... to confer the tonsure and minor orders on any but their regular subjects, nor shall the said abbots grant letters dimissory to any secular clerics to be ordained by others" [Can. et Decret. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
It cannot be decreed by law. Times, Sunday Times
Parliament has decreed that, in the particular circumstances which arise in the present case, the company should be taxed on the interest receivable on the debt from TEE for so long as that debt was retained as an asset in the winding up.
Fate decreed that she would never reach America.
Sadly, he'll be on his own, because the slaphead comic has decreed that none of his producers speak to him before, during or after the show.
The new Nazi government decreed a forced sale, for a pittance, of the main Alt Aussee house.
When the annexation of Belgium was decreed on 1 October 1795 the mover of the proposal, Merlin de Douai, also recommended the annexation of the entire left bank of the Rhine.
As though pursuing the serpentine river that in a Claudean painting unifies the diminutive human foreground with its vast skies, we now follow this "wanderer Man" into the "boundless void" of "futurity" -- or, in more painful moments, back into this human dilemma: "when affliction bade his spirit bleed,/If 'twere a Father's love or Tyrant's wrath decreed? Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_
On the tenth it was decreed that all common lands might be redistributed among inhabitants of the communities where they were situated.
Fate decreed that they would not meet again.
Though its etymology is uncertain, ghetto is likely derived from either borghetto (”little borough”) or geto (”foundry”) in Venetain dialect which originally described the city’s foundry district, an islet that became gated and guarded when “The Council of Ten” decreed that all Jews reside there from 1516 until 1797 when Napoleon emancipated them. Ghetto Fabulous Typography | Jewschool
How anyone can view this as anything other than unconscionable malice is beyond me, but regardless of my opinion on the matter, god could just as easily have decreed that women are intellectual equals to men, and that they should be afforded the same rights as men in Israelite society. Harlan Ellison on God
No longer will he take his daily enjoyment in despising the wife of his bosom – because nature has decreed that she shall be the wife of his bosom and not the husband of some one else's. Marriage as a Trade
Eccl., cap. cxviii) quotes a council of Reims as having decreed "that the corporal [corporale] upon which the Holy Sacrifice was offered must be of the finest and purest linen without admixture of any other fibre, because Our The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
As decreed by what was called the Holy Office at that time, the dwellers in Hell included those it had condemned for obdurate heresy.
The government decreed that a new tax beimposed.
S: And if Allah should hasten the evil to men as they desire the hastening on of good, their doom should certainly have been decreed for them; but We leave those alone who hope not for Our meeting in their inordinacy, blindly wandering on. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
SC: Geokster, re Christian conquest and conversion: In 780 Charlemagne decreed the death penalty for all Saxons who failed to be baptised, who failed to keep Christian festivals, or who cremated theirdead. The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
A major US chain decreed that it would not be ordering any hardcovers that cost more than approx. $25 if they weren't by, say, Stephen King. REVIEW: The Killing of Worlds by Scott Westerfeld
The king replied: ‘Thou hast adduced this wonderful sally and hast enounced a strange maxim but it is impossible according to reason and contrary to usage that thy accomplishments and eloquence should this day save thee from the punishment which I have decreed; and I consider it proper to throw thee headlong from the castle that others may take an example.’ The Gulistan of Sa'di
Spanish mansions, with the usual charmingly 'escalloped' roof, all resting on a prolonged colonnade or piazza, strange, old-fashioned, and original, running round to a vast extent, which the sensible town has decreed is never to be interfered with. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
He was appalled and immediately decreed that all patients receiving such therapy should have proper anaesthetic cover.
But the union beaks decreed that because the league regulations were drawn up under English legal guidelines, they had the right to ‘prosecute’ the player under their own procedure.
I testify, moreover, that Thou hast decreed that none on the face of the earth should equal Them, and none of Thy creatures be able to be compared with any of Them, in order that Thine own singleness and peerlessness might be recognized and established. Prayers and Meditations
However, when fashion decreed crinolines, bustles, and fussy late-Victorian frills and flounces, Australia tried to follow.
A medieval act - still in force today - decreed that any whale, dolphin, porpoise or sturgeon washed up on English shores is the property of the monarch. Pollinated Here & There
Edward the Elder decreed that the hundred courts were to judge the worthiness of every law-suit and to appoint a day for it to be heard and settled.
In 1570, the Spanish decreed that the natives would be forced to work in the rich silver mines on the altiplano.
But the executive has decided otherwise, and has decreed that smoking should be banned in all public places.
The great historian Henry Jackson Turner had just decreed the official closing of the frontier.
At the same time an amnesty was decreed for all those who had fought for freedom under the Ancien Régime.
Fate decreed that he should travel long and far.
S: He it is Who created you from clay, then He decreed a term; and there is a term named with Him; still you doubt. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
They collapse with immense majesty, as if the director has decreed slo-mo for this, the final scene. A MEANS TO EVIL
Shortly after Halloween 2004, the Parish Council decreed that in unincorporated Livingston Parish, Halloween will be at the prescribed hours on Oct. 31 -- unless it falls on a Sunday, as it does this year, and then it's on Monday. La. Parish Bans Halloween on Sunday
I think it was right here in this very paper that some self-appointed style authority decreed that any piece of clothing sporting graffiti-based design was considered passé in the year 2002.
Indeed my passion for him is double that he feeleth for me; my tongue may not describe my yearning for him; and were it not for the extravagant wilfulness of his words and the wanderings of his wit, my father had not cut off from him favours that besit, nor had decreed unto him exclusion and prohibition as fit. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
They decreed in tumultuous votes, * that his honors should be reversed, his titles erased from the public monuments, his statues thrown down, his body dragged with a hook into the stripping room of the gladiators, to satiate the public fury; and they expressed some indignation against those officious servants who had already presumed to screen his remains from the justice of the senate. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite
Life and death are determined by fate, rank and riches decreed by Heaven.
So the emperor granted his request and decreed that one day in the year would be set aside for fools and jesters to rule.
Life and death are determined by fate, rank and riches decreed by Heaven.
The king decreed a general amnesty.

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