edict

How To Use edict In A Sentence

• The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
• Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
• It was a metaphor that predicted the nature of the many problems that have beset excessively large inner urban secondary schools in the intervening years. Times, Sunday Times
• I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
• The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
• The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
• In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
• Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
• I showed up at West Point and found that 60% of my classmates were team captains, and 20% were valedictorians.
• Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.