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Example sentences for "decreeing"

Lexicographically close words:
decreased; decreases; decreasing; decree; decreed; decrees; decreet; decreeth; decrement; decrements
  1. Philip III, without raising his voice in indignation or decreeing any punishment upon those officials who had refused to execute his decrees, mildly solicited that they should devote their care and attention to the matter in the future.

  2. They are also decreeing a tax on all royal grants, titles, and appointments, which will also bring a vast revenue.

  3. State the sole proprietor and without decreeing the community of goods and gains, they mean, by any system of taxation whatever, to relieve the people and restore to labor what capital takes from it.

  4. An oration of thanks to Aemilianus Strabo and the senate of Carthage for decreeing a statue in his honour.

  5. We have a voice in decreeing our inheritance, and not our inheritance only, but our heredity.

  6. The Peking Government is still decreeing and counter-decreeing night and day according to the Government Gazettes.

  7. For all the decreeing and counter-decreeing of the early Boxer days have begun again, and the all-powerful Boxers with their boasted powers are being rudely treated.

  8. In decreeing this penalty, the civil power was undoubtedly influenced by the example of Robert the Pious.

  9. The Council here indicates only the usual punishment for the relapsed, without really decreeing it.

  10. But in decreeing the death of these sinners, the Inquisitors at once did away with the possibility of their conversion.

  11. It is hard to understand how he can assert that the imperial Edicts decreeing the death penalty are due to ecclesiastical influence, when we notice that nearly all the churchmen of the day protested against such a penalty.

  12. They began by decreeing death as a secondary penalty, in case heretics rebelled against the law of banishment.

  13. He decrees sin only in the sense of decreeing to create and preserve those who will sin; in other words, he decrees to create and preserve human wills which, in their own self-chosen courses, will be and do evil.

  14. But God's decreeing to create, when he foresees that certain free acts of men will follow, is a decreeing of those free acts, in the only sense in which we use the word decreeing, viz.

  15. We grant that God decrees primarily and directly his own acts of creation, providence, and grace; but we claim that this involves also a secondary and indirect decreeing of the acts of free creatures which he foresees will result therefrom.

  16. In so decreeing he necessarily decreed all that was to come.

  17. One of the successors of Theodosius justified himself in decreeing the spoliation of the old religion upon the grounds that "It was unbecoming a Christian government to supply the infidels with the means of persevering in their errors.

  18. Don Francisco Tello Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that a book be made in which to enter the fines applied to the poor of the prison and other pious works, and to the courts, and the manner of their distribution.

  19. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the city shall give information regarding its place of seating in the cathedral of this city.

  20. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that, on account of the end and death of the licentiate Albaro Çambrano (whom may God keep!

  21. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the notaries shall not collect their fees entirely from each of the parties, but that each one shall pay the part he owes.

  22. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the clerk of court shall bring to the first meeting a minute of the fiscal suits.

  23. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing the collection of all the debts which are in any way owed to the royal treasury of the king our sovereign.

  24. An act decreeing that Doctor Antonio de Morga, auditor of this royal Audiencia, shall audit the accounts of the city for the past year, 1598.

  25. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that Doctor Antonio de Morga shall take the residencia, for the months of January and February, of the deputy regidors, within the limit of ten days.

  26. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the alguazils-mayor and their deputies shall make the rounds every night.

  27. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing the making of a book in which shall be entered the decrees sent and to be sent by his Majesty to these islands, in order that they may be observed and executed.

  28. In the chamber of peers it was more difficult to pass the law decreeing the equality of Judaism and Christianity.

  29. When the order of the Convention was issued, decreeing that every tenth day be observed as a day of rest, and making Sunday a working day, the Mayors of certain cities, as of Strasburg and Troyes, extended this decree also to the Sabbath.

  30. Spain again led the way in decreeing banishments.

  31. It was upon the vote of such as Athanasius that the Testament was decreed to be the word of God; and nothing can present to us a more strange idea than that of decreeing the word of God by vote.

  32. First, that of willing or decreeing the laws; secondly, that of executing or putting them in practice.

  33. But it was not till 1875 that a law was passed decreeing the separation of those serving sentences of imprisonment of less than a year.

  34. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the prison warden shall maintain a stricter watch over the prisoners.

  35. Doctor Antonio de Morga The licentiate Tellez Almaçan The licentiate Albaro Çambrano Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing a proper regulation of supplies.

  36. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that the treasurer of the royal exchequer shall collect all the fines that are in any wise imposed by this royal Audiencia.

  37. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that a book shall be prepared in which are registered the citizens of these islands, with their merits and services.

  38. Doctor Antonio de Morga The licentiate Tellez Almaçan An act decreeing that one of the auditors shall have charge of reviewing the charges against prisoners every two months.

  39. Ordinances Enacted by the Audiencia of Manila An act decreeing that the Sangleys who are arrested shall pay their creditors within six days, or have their services sold for debt.

  40. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that notaries, whether public or royal, shall be present at the review of charges against prisoners.

  41. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that an account of the resources of his Majesty's exchequer in these islands be sent to the royal Council of the Indias.

  42. Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that there shall be no hucksters.

  43. Doctor Antonio de Morga The licentiate Tellez Almaçan The licentiate Albaro Çambrano Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that no one shall embark for the purpose of leaving these islands, without permission.

  44. He found the Almighty establishing the relation of master and servant among his own chosen people, and decreeing that certain persons might be servants forever, being, as he himself terms them 'an inheritance forever.

  45. We find the Most High decreeing perpetual bondage in certain cases, and more than all, as we have seen, the forcible separation of husband and wife among slaves.

  46. And again: "Decreeing this, that if any one of our brethren in any province die, he who is known to be the Metropolitan of that province, should claim to himself the ordination of the Priest.

  47. It represents God not only as decreeing one thing and commanding another directly adverse thereto, but also as decreeing and bringing to pass opposite and contradictory events.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decreeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.