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Example sentences for "imperial decree"

  • Formerly this library possessed a very curious collection of crayon sketches, portraits of personages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which were transferred by an imperial decree to the library of the Rue de Richelieu.

  • On the 18th of June was published an Imperial decree, dated the 8th of the same month, by virtue of which were to be reaped the fruits of the official falsehood contained in the bulletin above mentioned.

  • Thrice within the short space of five years he had been proscribed as a rebel by Imperial decree once at the instance of the Taira; once at the instance of Yoshinaka, and once at the instance of Yoshitsune.

  • As regards the monasteries and priests outside the Bakufu domain, the case was entirely different; they were virtually independent, and Kamakura interfered there only when instructed to do so by Imperial decree.

  • At a date nearly three centuries earlier, there appears to have been a marked deficiency of coasting vessels, for the Chronicles quote an Imperial decree issued B.

  • A year later, after careful and mature deliberation, there appeared an imperial decree, not only organizing the Jewish Church and regulating its relations with the state, but defining the civil and political status of Hebrews.

  • It is significant that it was an imperial decree, and not a statute, which on March seventeenth, 1808, created the organism.

  • The levy is authorized in general terms by an imperial decree, but all details are left to the local authorities.

  • The highest form of legislation was an imperial decree, whether promulgated in general terms or to meet a special case.

  • By an imperial decree of 1859, the right of permitting of the opening of new Protestant churches and chapels was taken from the local courts and transferred to the imperial council of state.

  • By imperial decree in 1885 the suspension of the law against withdrawing again from the national church, which had existed for twenty years, was abolished.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancestral spirits; familiar figure; guardian angels; heat slowly; imperial authority; imperial crown; imperial decree; imperial order; imperial power; imperial troops; more considerable; musical expression; our business; perfect right; physical basis; public expenditure; readily recognized; remarkably handsome; sharply pointed; she read; stiff breeze; sunny days; the constitution; under each; where every; your account