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Example sentences for "decree"

Lexicographically close words:
decoys; decrease; decreased; decreases; decreasing; decreed; decreeing; decrees; decreet; decreeth
  1. But, after Caesar's death, as soon as the consuls in accordance with a decree of the Senate began to investigate cases, the facts as I have stated them were put before them.

  2. Piso wants to go on a mission with a forged decree of the senate.

  3. Page 437 addition to the decree of the Senate, granting the consuls the right of deciding on Caesar's statutes, decrees, and proceedings.

  4. He only asks you to alter the point about the decree of the Senate.

  5. Caesar's decree was read to them, and many other papers of Caesar's were brought forward too.

  6. He says that at the same time a decree will be passed assigning provinces to them and other ex-praetors.

  7. Society is a congress of sovereigns, in which no one has authority over another, and no one can be rightfully forced to submit to any decree against his will.

  8. By him kings reign and magistrates decree just things.

  9. A decree of the senate ordered that his works should be confiscated and burned by the aediles.

  10. It will give his Majesty (whom may God preserve) thanks for the favors which he concedes to your Lordship by his decree of the rights to enjoy the privileges which are enjoyed in this royal university.

  11. This decree is given by Fray Bernardino Nozaleda de Villa, the last Spanish archbishop of Manila, in his Colegio de S.

  12. I the King "By order of the king our sovereign: Andrés Alcorobarratia Gulpide" This decree was presented in the Manila Audiencia, in 1723.

  13. By decree of the crown the Senate may be constituted a High Court of Justice to try cases involving treason or attempts upon the safety of the state, and to try ministers impeached by the Chamber of Deputies.

  14. The Spanish Salic Law was enacted by a decree of Philip V.

  15. A measure might take the form of a simple decree of (p.

  16. By decree of the Emperor the Reichsrath may at any time be adjourned, or the lower chamber dissolved.

  17. And by decree of the President, issued in the Council of Ministers, it may be constituted a court of justice to try any person accused of attempts upon the safety of the state.

  18. Napoleon, in December, 1806, issued from Berlin a decree declaring that, in retaliation for the aggressions of England upon neutral commerce, the British Isles were in blockade and all trade with them was forbidden.

  19. To this Napoleon retorted by the Milan Decree of December, 1807, proclaiming that all vessels which had been searched by British, or which came by way of England, were good prize.

  20. But to all his protestations the judge turned a deaf ear; only informing him that no objections could now be raised after decree had been pronounced.

  21. This rising ended with a surrender, accompanied by an amnesty which included the absence of any decree of confiscation of property, so no blood was shed except in the field.

  22. In 1830, came at last the decree from the Mexican President, Bustamente, prohibiting further immigration into Texas from the United States.

  23. It was this political priest who had made the first assault on the constitution, when he urged the Third Estate to decree itself the nation.

  24. The same decree abolished the Swiss Guard, and the household troops of the King.

  25. The decree of the Senate was followed by declarations from all the public bodies in and around Paris, that they adhered to the Provisional Government, and acquiesced in the decree of forfeiture.

  26. Even before the Senate could reduce its decree into form, the council-general of the department of the Seine had renounced Napoleon's authority, and imputed to him alone the present disastrous state of the country.

  27. A motion was made by Felix Lepelletier, that the Chamber should decree to Napoleon the title of Saviour of his Country.

  28. The eighth and last decree was the most important of all.

  29. They felt their attachment to Napoleon placed in opposition to the duty they owed their country by the late decree of the Senate, and they considered the cause of France as the most sacred.

  30. The fifth decree of Lyons suppressed the ancient nobility and feudal titles, and formally confirmed proprietors of national domains in their possessions.

  31. About eighty members of the Legislative Body, at the summons of the Provisional Government, assembled on the 3d April, and formally adhered to the above decree of forfeiture.

  32. Ney produced the Moniteur, containing the decree of forfeiture, and advised him to acquiesce and abdicate.

  33. From all these inductive causes, the Senate, considering that the Imperial government, established by the decree of 28th Floreal, in the year XII.

  34. It is he, Pompey, who has absolutely willed that the ten tribunes should propose the decree which permitted Caesar to ask for the consulship without coming to Rome.

  35. Porcius Cato, and yet his adversary, lost no time in divulging this reply, although it was not permitted, without a decree of the Senate, to publish the Sibylline oracles.

  36. The decree of the Senate was expressed in more flattering terms than had ever been used for any general.

  37. We then shut our ears against all physiology, and we decree in secret that "we will hear nothing of the fact that man is something else than soul and form!

  38. And always from time to time will the human race decree anew that "there is something which really may not be laughed at.

  39. An accusation, as malignant as absurd, was trumped up against Olozaga, of having used force, unmanly and disloyal violence, to compel Isabella to sign a decree for the dissolution of the Cortes.

  40. The jurisdictional requirements for rendering a valid decree in divorce proceedings are considered under the full faith and credit clause, supra, pp.

  41. Sufficiency of Remedy When no other remedy is available, due process is denied by a judgment of a State court withholding a decree in equity to enjoin collection of a discriminatory tax.

  42. The jurisdictional requirements for rendering a valid decree in divorce proceedings are considered under the full faith and credit clause.

  43. A decree pro confesso entered against a defendant after striking his answer from the files for contempt of court is void.

  44. Methwold to be paid annually to the Vicar and Churchwardens of Kensington, and this bequest was duly established of the same decree of the Court as established Methwold’s gift.

  45. We decree that here in our cathedral of Seville you twain shall be wed on the same day, but before the Marquis of Morella and you, Sir Peter Brome, meet in single combat.

  46. The affair was conducted quite regularly by a decree of the Supreme Court.

  47. It is true that the best of congratulations awaits him on the 16th March on the front page of the Official Journal in a decree which flames in advance before his eyes and makes him glance every now and then at his buttonhole.

  48. The court takes back its decree and they give me back my treasure with every sort of excuse.

  49. But defeated in their hope by the decree rendering obligatory the re-election of two-thirds of the Conventionals, the royalists incited the primary assemblies against this decree.

  50. Ah, if ever liberty is established in France, if ever some legislator, according to what I may have done for the country, should attempt to decree me the honors of the Pantheon, I here vigorously protest against the black affront!

  51. All the troops are placed under the command of General Bonaparte; he will be called into the Council to receive the announcement of the present decree and to take the oath.

  52. At the time it was adopted, this measure was in full accord with the hesitant disposition of the majority of the Assembly, who wished only to decree the suspension of the King's powers.

  53. The decree of the Convention is as follows: Article 1.

  54. The Executive Council is charged to notify Louis XVI of the decree during the day, and to have him executed within twenty-four hours.

  55. The number of mechanics skilled in iron working would hardly suffice for getting out the arms; by a decree of the Assembly, rendered on September 4, it was forbidden to them to leave Paris.

  56. The present decree shall at once be transmitted by messenger to the Council of Five Hundred and to the executive Directorate.

  57. One of the latter was speaking to certain articles of a decree introducing some exceptions into the law on Emigrants, when a low rumor running through the chamber heralded Louis's approach.

  58. In the name of justice and of freedom then let us rise and decree the destruction of our destroyer.

  59. The great usurpation is now affirmed, legalized, by the decree of the Judicial Department of this government!

  60. Instead of President Lincoln's waiting two long years before calling to the side of the Government the four millions of allies whom we have had within the territory of rebeldom, it should have been the first decree he sent forth.

  61. After this preamble the decree doubtless awarded certain public honours such as are enumerated in an inscription found by Mr. Murray at Petworth.

  62. Similarly at the head of a decree of citizenship or proxenia, the newly admitted citizen appears as worshipping the goddess (cf.

  63. The sovereigns at once sent an embassy to the pope, not simply to announce the discovery, but to obtain from him a decree confirming similar discoveries in the same direction.


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    Other words:
    act; action; appoint; appointment; authorize; award; bid; bill; brevet; bull; canon; charge; choose; command; commission; condemn; condemnation; consideration; constitute; decide; decision; declaration; declare; decree; deliverance; desire; determination; determine; diagnosis; dictate; dictum; direct; directive; doom; edict; enact; enactment; enjoin; establish; fiat; filibuster; find; finding; foreknowledge; form; formality; formula; formulary; formulate; impose; institution; instruct; judge; judgement; jus; kill; law; legalize; legislate; legislation; lex; lobby; lot; mandate; measure; necessity; ordain; order; ordinance; pass; pigeonhole; pocket; precedent; precept; predestination; prescribe; prescript; prescription; proclaim; proclamation; prognosis; promulgate; pronounce; pronouncement; railroad; regulate; regulation; report; rescript; resolution; resolve; rubric; rule; ruling; sanction; sentence; shape; statute; table; ukase; validate; verdict; veto; way; will