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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61. The revision bill would nullify the 1982 court decree that governs the Bell System breakup.
62. His lawyers have appealed to the constitutional court against the decree, which was agreed by a simple cabinet majority.
63. In December 1936 a decree was issued which made all volunteer forces subject to military jurisdiction.
64. The federal court has been putting pressure on the state to adhere to the population caps in the decree.
65. However desirable, that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about.
66. The blinds pulled, by her domestic decree, half way down the windows discouraged all hope.
67. Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished.
68. But the president claims he abandoned this effort when told that it would require a presidential decree.
69. The decree exempted a list of raw and construction materials and production and technical goods, which would remain at fixed prices.
70. The effect of the decree was to wrest control of Moscow's police force from the city soviet and the regional soviet.
71. The response of the Moscow city soviet presidium to Pugo's decree raised the prospect of rival police forces in the capital.
72. His decree appeared designed to prevent a proposed takeover of the media by the Congress of People's Deputies.
73. The decree reaffirmed central banking control pending the conclusion of a new union treaty.
74. A government decree linked the employment of foreigners to their possession of a work permit, it was reported on Oct. 11.
75. Had he not himself acted thus after hearing the papal decree against lay investiture and clerical homage?
76. The decree gives President Hugo Banzer special powers to deploy police and the military for 90 days.
77. They had the effect of diminishing the force of the decree, to the distress of non-Catholic observers.
78. Despite the new decree the primaries were bedeviled with allegations of corruption.
79. A decree in February banned the sale of weapons to countries involved in armed conflict.
80. In December 1785 Joseph 11 issued an imperial decree limiting the number of Viennese lodges to three.
81. Dani Rothschild, issued a decree on June 9 which was aimed at encouraging investment.
82. In 1989, a government decree banned the creation of any new posts in public sector institutions and companies.
83. Reno contends Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree by tying the licensing and distribution of Windows and its browser. Sentencedict.com
84. A panel reviewing Decree 2 cases started work on March 13, 1990, chaired by Ajibola.
85. The majority in favour meant that the changes would become law once published by presidential decree in the official gazette.
86. They therefore did not have before them and accept as a single decree all that we have on the inscription from Troizen.
87. Hugh was the most forceful advocate of the principle which the new papal decree embodied.
88. In a decree of October 1856 he strengthened the hand of provincial governors.
89. The consent decree was drafted and released to the press in November.
90. She moved to Chelsea and waited for Joyce's divorce decree to become absolute.
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