Decreed used in a sentence

Decreed in a sentence as an adjective

The new laptops have touch because Microsoft decreed that it should be so. Macs don't have it.

GMail's meter is fine -- it's displaying the state of a value which Google has decreed will increase at a set rate.

Steve Jobs has decreed that if you own a channel for digital goods distribution you can lease it out for 30% of gross.

The HR director decreed that only "power blue" would be accepted, and all other hues would be rejected.

At one point, a VP announced to me that they were going to build a certain software project and the CEO had decreed that it would be done in 90 days.

"Apple has decreed that all applications submitted to the Mac App Store must be sandboxed, starting in November.

Furthermore, we have no scientific footing on which to say 'we are sure that a specific mutation will arise that will inhibit this other mutation' as decreed by Nature.

British law is largely unwritten - until the EU gave us them we had no written bill of rights and most of our laws are based on precedent rather than anything parliament has decreed.

[2]The doctors trying to set up triage spots and infirmaries are stopped as per orders of Ministry of Health, which decreed today all the doctors that triaged protesters on field will be investigated.

Steve was reportedly against having slots in the Apple II back in the days of yore, and felt even stronger about slots for the Mac. He decreed that the Macintosh would remain perpetually bereft of slots, enclosed in a tightly sealed case, with only the limited expandability of the two serial ports.

"After five years of bailouts financed largely by austerity-weary European taxpayers, wealthy nations like Germany and the Netherlands have decreed that from now on when a bank or country fails, it will be bond investors and perhaps even bank depositors who will be forced to pick up a big share of the bill.

At a higher level, say the cell phone or desktop computer, there is a sentiment for "if you can't replace its software, it isn't yours".There seems to be a threshold under which a device ought to just do what you expect, what the manufacturer decreed it would do and no more, even if you own it and it could do more.