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How to use decreed in a sentence

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So the emperor granted his request and decreed that one day in the year would be set aside for fools and jesters to rule.
History tells us that in the sixteenth century Ignatius Loyola decreed that henceforth all priests of the Jesuit order must wear a collar.
I loved the cover with a gold door knocker on a dark-blue background, but the sales reps decreed it too safe.
They adjoin the Alhambra Palace, those stately pleasure domes that the Nasrid caliphs decreed should represent paradise on earth.
German law decreed that as soon as you crossed the border you lost your nationality, but in the eyes of the British he was still a German.
Boston, dependably conservative in many of its instincts, decreed that buildings must rise no higher than 125 feet.
In 1990, authorities in Florence decreed that horses drawing carriages in the city must wear a form of nappies.
As a result governments long ago decreed fluid milk sold to the public must be pasteurised.
The General was sentenced to 46 years in prison, the longest sentence decreed by the court.
The government has decreed a sharp rise in taxation for the multinational oil companies.
Finally, it is also decreed that the crimes of rape and attempted rape will be severely punished.
Authorities decreed a 90-day period before foot and mouth restrictions could be lifted.
For 91 years, Nebraska state law decreed that black-tailed prairie dogs be eradicated annually.
But the executive has decided otherwise, and has decreed that smoking should be banned in all public places.
In a move to whip up popular support, he decreed the Union to be abolished.
A six year tax exemption was decreed to peasants who occupied and worked farms abandoned in the Thirty Years War.
The Colonial government decreed that such people not be permitted to leave the province.
They didn't manage it and the courts have decreed the Korean chaps forfeit the money.
The government decreed that cases of political violence would be tried henceforth by military courts.
The government has decreed that importing second-hand cars would damage the local market.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Napoleon decreed, and embargoed, and sequestered, with little effect upon national sentiment outside of New England.
This is indicated by the statement that the kingship is decreed for him by Enlil.
God himself has decreed it, in giving us expansible desires and improvable faculties.
The emperor convoked a council, which decreed that the inquisitorial tribunal of jaen should be transferred to Grenada.
The gemot met and decreed the restoration of the earl and the outlawry of many Normans.
The attitude of the public toward the governmentally decreed system of social economy is not the least interesting feature of it.
Pellett had had his skinful, and the fitness of things decreed that he should soak the clock around.
The real man is discovered, his worth is impartially weighed, his rank is irreversibly decreed.
It is decreed of mothers that their birth pangs shall not cease until they die.
Now that the Jew blasphemer has gone, let the sacrifice be offered, as is decreed.
God had, at any rate, decreed that this man should not cumber it as a drone.
He decreed, that all the inhabitants of the quinze Vingt were clothed in white.
But, on this unusual occasion, it was decreed that we should black our boots and leggings.
He had now reached the Aube, beyond which Joffre had decreed that he must not retire.
But St. John's absenting himself from our solemn revels, so long before decreed, is flat mutiny and disclamation of allegiance.
It is enough for you to know that your death has been decreed by this tong.
Then it remained for some instants taking counsel with itself, at the end of which it decreed a retreat.
Atropos has decreed that I at least shall never again enter her walls.
The Congress at Vienna had decreed his transportation to the Azores.
Fortune had decreed to ennoble this little brook with a higher honour than any of those which wash the plains of Arcadia ever deserved.
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