We found 15 examples of how to use decree in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 15 of 15.
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| 1. | I need to escape from this decree. | |
| 2. | The decree of a president of the republic expires with an end to the state of emergency. | |
| 3. | She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, either because she was too quick and heedless, or because the decree of the fairy had so ordained, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon. | |
| 4. | "Through shifting hazards, by the Fates' decree, / to Latin shores we steer, our promised land to see. / There quiet settlements the Fates display, / there Troy her ruined fortunes shall repair. / Bear up; reserve you for a happier day." | |
| 5. | "Surely from them the rolling years should see / new sons of ancient Teucer rise again, / the Romans, rulers of the land and sea. / So swar'st thou; Father, say, why changed is thy decree?" | |
| 6. | "Nay, Juno, too, who now, in mood malign, / earth, sea and sky is harrying, shall incline / to better counsels, and unite with me / to cherish and uphold the imperial line, / the Romans, rulers of the land and sea, / lords of the flowing gown. So standeth my decree." | |
| 7. | Then his plaintive tone / no more could Venus bear, but interrupts her son: / "Stranger", she answered, "whosoe'er thou be; / not unbeloved of heavenly powers, I ween, / thou breath'st the vital air, whom Fate's decree / permits a Tyrian city to have seen." | |
| 8. | "No hope have I my ancient fatherland, / or darling boys, or long-lost sire to see, / whom now perchance, the Danaans will demand, / poor souls! for vengeance, and their death decree, / to purge my crime, in daring to be free." | |
| 9. | "Now, by Fate's decree, / here with the mother of the Gods I dwell." | |
| 10. | "If ever Tiber and the fields I see / washed by her waves, ere mingling with the brine, / and build the city which the Fates decree, / then kindred towns and neighbouring folk shall join, / yours in Epirus, in Hesperia mine, / and linked thenceforth in sorrow and in joy, / with Dardanus the founder of each line, / so let posterity its pains employ, / two nations, one in heart, shall make another Troy." | |
| 11. | Spanish history is replete with official anti-Semitism: the 14th-century massacres of Jews in Seville, Córdoba and elsewhere, incited by a prominent Catholic clergyman; the Spanish Inquisition and forced religious conversions, beginning in the 15th century; and the expulsion of an estimated 70,000 Jews by decree of Ferdinand and Isabella. | |
| 12. | The government approved a new decree which effectively locks down the region of Lombardy in the north and 14 other provinces, covering one quarter of the Italian population. | |
| 13. | But now, even the young are cautious about venturing out — and not only because of the government decree. | |
| 14. | Putin signed a decree about the appointment of a new government. | |
| 15. | The decree is fair. |