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Meaning decree meaning

What does decree mean?

decree

— noun (= order) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there — verb issue a decree The King only can decree — verb decide with authority The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed

Synonyms decree synonyms

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decree English » English

order edict command ordain law rule fiat ordinance enact sentence mandate verdict judgement resolution proclaim legislate judgment govern directive direct bid act regulation prescribe dictate decide tell statute rescript made justice establish enjoin enactment demand decision created appointed appoint writ will ukase set resolve proclaimation predestination pass judicial decision judgement judgment instruction

Topics decree topics

What do people use decree to talk about?
Social behavior Law

Laws

Conjugation decree conjugation

How do you conjugate decree?

decree · verb

Examples decree examples

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Movie subtitles

Decree of the Austrian Federal Council The corps of officials will be disbanded.
In the case of Warriner v, Warriner, the court grants. an interlocutory decree of divorce in favour of the plaintiff, Lucy Warriner.
I can hardly wait for your final decree to come along.
Wait a minute, after all, the final decree isn't in yet.
And I hereby decree that until what time if any, that I return the Scarecrow, by virtue of his highly superior brains shall rule in my stead assisted by the Tin Man, by virtue of his magnificent heart and the Lion, by virtue of his courage.
May our descendants adhere to this decree, and thereby be spared suffering for their own well-being and for the sake of their children and their children's children.
The decree was issued last night by his Excellency, Admiral Robert. Governor General of the French West Indies.
The royal decree signed by Ferdinand VI.
Pause, Nero, before you sign this decree.
My lords, come forward. and do each his homage. as ancient custom doth decree.
Therefore I decree that Guinevere. my queen that was. be conveyed to the convent of the holy nuns at Amesbury. there to remain until the day of her death.
Tribune Gallio, we decree that you be taken immediately to the palace archery field and put to death for high treason.
I want to issue a decree.
Are you sure you want to issue such a decree?
In the case of Warriner v. Warriner, the court grants. an interlocutory decree of divorce in favor of the plaintiff, Lucy Warriner.
Yes, but that's all right. My decree's final.
Tell him you'll tear that divorce decree into a million pieces and use it for confetti.
Well, I just got my decree.
In regard to the evidence presented, I have entered the decree to the effect. that the man known as John Smith shall be presumed to be dead. and your marriage to him consequently dissolved.
New rate decree! Read all about it!
Bohemia Herald! New rate decree!
You forget. His Majesty's decree specifies. that such a move requires the signed approval of our bishop.
This morning, after you left. I refused to sign their decree. bow down to their ultimatum.
By decree of His Majesty the King, Armand de Foix lieutenant is promoted to second lieutenant of the royal guard.
I recommend you promptly repeal your decree.
We ask the Emperor Tobu to dismiss this decree!
The policies of the Monk-Emperor require that we confiscate all estates named in the decree.
That's when I got my final decree.
In the seventh year of the reign of Augustus Caesar an imperial decree ordered every Judean each to return to his place of birth to be counted and taxed.
But King Stefan, still fearful of his daughter's life, did then and there decree that every spinning wheel in the kingdom. should on that very day be burned.

News and current affairs

Boris Yeltsin forbade party cells in state-controlled institutions by decree.
The Ukraine president is authorized to appoint and sack the prime minister, dissolve parliament if he wishes, and rule by decree if he judges that the country's institutions are in danger.
Instead of enhancing European stability, it will undermine it by dividing Europe into the EU's single market and an economic trading area ruled by arbitrary fiat and decree.
The National Assembly granted de Gaulle the power to rule by decree for a year.
In both countries, the Parliaments were hostile to the Presidents, and the Presidents tried to ride roughshod over the Parliaments, ruling by decree and essentially ignoring hostile parliaments.
Traditional monarchs still have broad powers of appointment and decree.
Havel, however, would have questioned whether it could be planted, much less take root, by decree.
In February 2003, the Duma passed a decree stating that the Sakharov museum exhibition's purpose was to incite religious hatred and to insult believers and the Orthodox Church.
Death no longer comes at the end of the process of dying, but - by decree of a Harvard commission - at the beginning.
Once again, some Christians say that we have all inherited the original sin committed by Eve, who defied God's decree against eating from the tree of knowledge.
As president, he talked of economic performance as if it could be improved by decree.
Decree followed decree, eliminating the shipyards, closing ports, and forbidding Chinese to leave the mainland.
Mostly comprising electoral losers and remnants of Mubarak's regime, some aim to topple Morsi, not just get him to backtrack on his decree.
The PA prime minister, Salam Fayyad, like his Hamas counterparts in Gaza, rules by decree, keeps parliament inactive, and silences the opposition.
But Wade postponed legislative elections, originally scheduled for June 2006, first to February 2007, and later, by presidential decree, to June 2007.
A recent decree, widely condemned abroad, allows the government to appoint two-thirds of the Academy's members, thereby ending even the semblance of scientific independence.
In January, the Islamist-dominated parliament adopted a decree lowering the age of marriage for girls from 18 to 16, a major setback.
Economic wealth cannot be created by government decree; it comes from productive jobs that create goods and services that people value.
Even though the decree may well conflict with the Russian Constitution and the Law on State Secrets, the list of classified information now includes Russian military losses during peacetime operations.
Thus, European integration had to be created by real policies and institutions, not by decree.
Similarly, the moral evaluation of the past - which was certainly needed - was, in my mind, primarily a matter of a broad public debate, not one of government decree or other acts of the state.

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