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But the capitularies could and did range widely, and Charles issued decrees even concerning the conduct of the clergy.
The National Assembly decided in 1790 to translate its decrees into minority languages and various patois.
Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.
He or she will preside over the government as chairperson of the cabinet and have the power to issue decrees.
The more contentious of the two is the Women's Reservation Bill, which decrees a one-third reservation of parliamentary seats for women.
You must honor William's memory by living well until sadly fate decrees it is your time to leave this world.
He's the president who governed with the most number of presidential decrees.
In Ireland, the number of nullity decrees had been rising inexorably before divorce was introduced.
That's anyone under the age of 25 who decrees celebs, gushy reader advice and horoscopes to be past it.
Brussels II has therefore altered in the most radical fashion the basis on which decrees of divorce are recognised in Ireland.
Therefore councillors get paid what government decrees and have no say in the matter.
A Council of State on the Napoleonic model was introduced to draft decrees and control ministers, who replaced the collegiate system.
The Chancellor's Department dealt with the judiciary and it was also the custodian of the Great Seal to authenticate government decrees.
So the amended decrees nisi in each case would appear to be defectively drawn.
It seemed as if the August decrees could not have secured royal assent by any other means.
The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.
Of course, the consent decrees were originally put into action because the police abused their power to a tyrannical level.
Since the decrees were issued, the Adygei government must finally have Moscow's full support.
The official decrees of the 1579 Grands Jours indicate the obstacles to centralization under the king.
One of the important decrees issued by this council under the Pope's direction referred to Papal elections.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Is the enterprise upon which we are embarked to be conducted as he decrees?
These decrees were passed at Leucas, the capital of Acarnania, the place where all the states usually met in council.
For the first time in its history the Court was one voice, speaking through its Chief Justice the ineluctable decrees of the law.
Everything that conflicted with that authority, or with the decrees of the Church, was condemned.
The arbitration of bishops had the force of positive law, and judges were instructed to execute the episcopal decrees.
Robinson gives as its meaning, to set bounds before, to predetermine, spoken of the eternal decrees and counsels of God.
It was predetermined by the decrees of heaven that you were not to take me with you in your flight.
An atom of thy creation, wildered in the mazes of ignorance and woe, would bow to thy decrees.
Time cannot change it, nor can it be impaired by the decrees of tyranny or of justice.
All dogmatic decrees of the Pope, made with or without his general council, are infallible and irreformable.
It was useless, however, to cry over spilt milk, or to murmur against the mysterious decrees of Providence.
The decrees on the ineligibility of the high Bonapartist functionaries only affected shadows.
It might be extraconstitutional, but its decrees could be made binding in this particular case by consent of all concerned.
Under the ancien rgime the Parliament could and often did refuse to enregister royal acts and decrees.
This is why any attempt to overturn the decrees of ecumenical councils is forcefully anathematized.
As with a man busied about decrees, Condemning some to death and some to exile, Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.
It decrees that we, the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.
Are we to have a Pope of science, with infallible decrees laid down EX CATHEDRA, and accepted without question by the poor humble public?
You will then submit to what fate decrees for you without even attempting to contend with it?
The House of Commons is soon to register the decrees of the monthlies.
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