Example sentences for: decree

How can you use “decree” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Nevertheless, over 500 school districts still operate to some extent under a federal desegregation decree.

  • Kuwait's parliament rejected by 41-21 a decree by the emir granting women the right to vote and run for office.

  • "We follow that client through to filing it, to getting the final hearing, to preparing the final decree, to making sure she gets divorced," Reed says.

  • Corriere della Sera of Milan, in a front-page editorial, compared favorably the German government's well-prepared and well-argued proposal (although rejected by the voters of Hesse) to grant German citizenship to more than half its 7 million resident foreigners with the Italian government's sudden immigration decree which, it said, could generate xenophobia and racism.

  • In the mid-19th century, free port status was granted by royal decree to one port in each of the islands (two in Tenerife).


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