Decree in a sentence as a noun

37signals comes down against a decree of no more remote working.

In the end, the decree went out: Word should implement both formatting paradigms.

Google is definitely skewed here, by decree of the Chinese government.

"We will issue an illegal decree making it legal to unlock cell phones again?

Same decree issued by telco authority here in Finland.

But not before the ISP lobbies the state legislature to decree that cities can't annex fiber.

Leaders can shape company culture but only through their own personal demonstration of it and not by decree.

The money is almost immaterial, the rest of the consent decree is interesting, since Path is now stuck doing stuff for 20 years.

In addition to that the decree is not so much about data retention but about what gets transmitted to law enforcement.

Decree in a sentence as a verb

There were also issues of AT&T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree.

> Last month the US embassy in Hanoi said it was "deeply concerned by the decree's provisions", arguing that "fundamental freedoms apply online just as they do offline".My hypocrisy-meter just broke.

You get "grim expanses of McMansions" because some city planner ruled by decree that this area over here is "residential" and can't have little corner bodegas mixed in, while that area over there is "commercial" and can't include housing.

If you genuinely feel that Wikileaks is as bad as Al Qaeda and Hamas and the alikes, then I'll understand if you disagree with me, although even then I hope you agree that it should've been a government decree, and not banks solo-piloting their sense of morality.

""and the government can set whatever standards they want for public spaces"So, in your opinion, a government can decree that whites can't travel first class in planes, or that women must wear a burkha on the street?For me, all that hyperbole makes it hard to see what value your arguments have.

The authors mischaracterize the "code of conduct" statement first as a redundant legal system, then as a decree that "spreads guilt onto an entire gender," then as an "overarching act of protection condemning basically every social behavior between men and women.

In modern public policy making, the same people who try to flog the auto companies for endangering drivers for this or that reason are often the first to decree that cars be made smaller and smaller even though this might create increasing safety risks to drivers who wind up in accidents.

The administration is trying hard to continue to continue to send military aid to Egypt, despite a law which prohibits direct financial aid to "the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup dtat or decree or, after the date of enactment of this act, a coup dtat or decree in which the military plays a decisive role.

Decree definitions

noun

a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"

See also: edict fiat order rescript

verb

issue a decree; "The King only can decree"

verb

decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed"

See also: rule