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Example sentences for: decree

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In the mid-19th century, free port status was granted by royal decree to one port in each of the islands (two in Tenerife).
If the victim managed to make her way here and stay for three years as a nun, she could obtain a decree of divorce from the shogunate and go free.
Does that mean students who do not get such internships or their own planes are disadvantaged enough to need them given out by governmental or university administrative decree?
The Washington Post reports that the decree "effectively ends the careers of two of the most prominent gay rights advocates within the Catholic Church."
The act permits the Baby Bells to offer long-distance service--something the AT&T breakup decree had forbidden--but only after they have taken 14 specific steps to open up their own local phone markets.