edict sentence examples

• In france, louis was proving his own despotic ways by revoking the edict of nantes which had allowed the huguenots some toleration.
• According to historical records, fu su committed suicide in obedience to a supposed imperial edict.
• He even ran for president of nigeria in 1983, only to find himself banned from politics by government edict.
• Here daniel adds the king's edict, which he wished to be promulgated.
• Edict of toleration to discourage the tendency of new theories to proscribe their predecessors.
• Induction the edict for the induction of the rev. randolph scott to the church and parish of coatbridge: calder was returned duly served.
• Edicts enforced by the police.
• Every commandment is a royal edict, a statute which god hath made for the governing of the world.
• Specified texts or subjects asoka, rock edicts 1-4, 13.
• Edict of expulsion had been issued, ferdinand and isabella requested that he remain in spain.
• In a.d. 250 he published an edict calling for a return to the pagan state religion.
• He denied earlier reports he had issued a fatwa, or formal religious edict.
• Issue edicts to rig gambling halls, force captives to walk the plank or even instigate a war between dominant world powers.
• He begins to follow the edicts of the bible, and plans to kill every prostitute and their customers in paris.
• Once bitten twice shy must surely guide our reaction to the council's latest edict.
• Displaying admirable boldness, he had defied the government edict that had banned images of dead british soldiers throughout the war years.
• What will be the future equivalent of nailing a new edict on a tree in the center of a village?
• Such edicts define practice and rapidly fossilize into rules.

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