Synonym: command, dictate, order, pronounce, rule. Similar words: decreed, decrepit, decrease, decry, in secret, ice-cream, secretary, recreation. Meaning: [dɪ'kriː] n. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge). v. 1. issue a decree 2. decide with authority.
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31. Sometimes the Senate would decree that the son of a deceased emperor was unfit to succeed his father.
32. This parliament was also dissolved by decree, and a third Duma was elected and convened in the fall of 1907.
33. The Assembly was dissolved by presidential decree on Oct. 12.
34. The decree also established from Jan. 1, 1991, currency exchanges where enterprises could sell roubles for hard currency.
35. The twenty-five articles of the decree were far-reaching and generally beneficial.
36. On Oct. 5 the Council of Ministers issued a decree on the preservation and use of forests and forest land.
37. Yeltsin signed a decree relieving him of his post on Oct. 23.
38. In attempting to implement the new policy via decree, Gordon had encountered strong patient resistance.
39. Heaven, its decree, and other related concepts, were reinterpreted as different aspects of li.
40. The powers allow it to rule by decree and declare a state of war.
41. The anti-investiture decree, however great its symbolic importance, did little to diminish the power of lay rulers over ecclesiastical appointments.
42. Even a small favorable comment from the boss is usually taken as a royal decree by the personnel department.
43. A decree of Oct. 4 ordered a switch in 1991 from fixed to negotiated contract wholesale prices.
44. In Savoy as elsewhere, it was one thing to issue a decree and another to make it effective.
45. The decree also imposed strict censorship of the media, including the closure of opposition radio stations.
46. On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
47. Five million roubles had already been allocated to aid resettlement, and a presidential decree had created the legal prerequisites.
48. King John forbade the clergy to enact any new decree on the subject.
49. Mubarak, in accordance with the Constitution, appointed a further 10 delegates by decree on Dec. 10.
50. Like school team selection time, there are winners and losers by decree.
51. On one occasion, a commission on terminology adopted 37, 795 new expressions in a single decree.
52. More adventurously, the teacher might choose to play the role of the Roman Centurion who reads out the decree.
53. Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6(sentencedict.com), oil and gas export prices were deregulated soas to bring them into line with world prices.
54. In Britain, Heath utilized the energy crisis to issue a decree in December imposing a three-day workweek on most industries.
55. Anselm was made to appear to have been too rigid in his interpretation of the decree of 1099.
56. Commentators noted that the decree might prove impossible to implement except by force.
57. The decree allowed enterprises and institutions to sell their vehicles to private citizens through state retail outlets.
58. The consent decree was carefully negotiated to allow that to continue, he said.
59. Decree 507, the new Public Order Law, prohibited all collective bargaining and strike action.
60. Yeltsin signed a decree on Oct. 16 granting extra economic support and freedoms to Kabardino-Balkaria.
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