5 sentences with 'decree'

Example sentences and phrases with the word decree and other words derived from it.

« He also tried to freeze wages and prices by decree, but this did not work as it created a black market in both goods and labour. »
« Soon, with the help of other conservative parties, the Nazis pushed through the Enabling Act, which empowered Hitler and the presidential cabinet to pass laws by decree. »
« This unique piece of archaeology is dated 196 BC and reproduces a decree of King Ptolemy V in two languages - Greek and Egyptian - and three scripts - Greek, demotic and hieroglyphic. This fortuitous circumstance made it possible to decipher the writing of the pharaohs. »
« ...we order, decree and establish this Constitution for the Argentine Nation". »
« In November 1775, he issued a decree, known as Dunmore's Proclamation, promising freedom to slaves and indentured servants of the rebels who remained loyal to the king and who pledged to fight with the Loyalists against the insurgents. Dunmore's Proclamation exposed serious problems for both the patriot cause and the British. »

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