(n.) An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.
(n.) A decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.
(n.) A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.
(n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.
(v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.
(v. t.) To ordain by fate.
(v. i.) To make decrees; -- used absolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Threshold temperatures for males were a little higher than for females, however, this difference was lesser than 1 decree C. On the other hand, the quantity of energy (GD) for developing females was a little higher than for males.
(2) Egypt • Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab.
(3) Substantial changes in X-ray diagnosis procedures will be introduced with the expected guidelines on implementation of the new decree.
(4) Hogan set out his decree in a letter to the city’s district court administrative judge Wednesday.
(5) But the decree included provisions for an increase in the capital of Italy's central bank – a move that will swell the balance sheets of the commercial banks that are shareholders in the Bank of Italy.
(6) I created a country', says the rebel driving South Sudan's brutal war Read more “I, Salva Kiir Mayardit, president of the Republic of South Sudan, do hereby issue this republican decree for the appointment of Dr Riek Machar Teny as the first vice-president of the Republic of South Sudan ,” said the decree issued late on Thursday.
(7) Our results show that an oral dosage of 20 mg of 5-IM given to patients with stable angina pectoris increased the capacity and exercise tolerance delaying significantly the onset time of angina, the onset time of EKG ischemia and its decree induced by the effort up to 5 hours after its administration.
(8) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
(9) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.
(10) More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Cairo on Tuesday to protest against a decree by the Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, that grants him sweeping constitutional powers.
(11) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(12) They accused the decree of attempting to topple the legal state, make Morsi a God whose decisions cannot be reviewed and build a dictatorship unlike any other Egypt has ever witnessed.
(13) Kuwait • A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation , Ian Black writes: The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists.
(14) Leftwing and liberal parties have called for an open-ended sit-in aimed at "toppling" the decree.
(15) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(16) The Czech Association of Pharmacists was established as a state-constituted professional organization by the decree of the Czech Government dated 11 March 1784, the initiator of the decree being Josef Gottfried Mikan (1742-1818), the then Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Botany and Chemistry at Charles University.
(17) Morsi issued his decree last Thursday, granting himself sweeping powers and immunity from judicial challenges over any laws he may pass until a new parliament is elected and a constitution is in place.
(18) A decree issued by Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said that compulsory military service – which was scrapped earlier this year – was being reinstated "given the deteriorating situation in the east and the south … the rising force of armed pro-Russian units and the taking of public administration buildings … which threaten territorial integrity".
(19) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(20) The decree included Mikan's requirements and the introduction of tests for pharmacists' apprentices (tirones) prior to the journeyman's examination and compulsory registration of employed pharmacists (subjecti) at the Faculty of Medicine.
Enjoin
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
(v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
(v. t.) To join or unite.
Example Sentences:
(1) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
(2) The general dentist Instruction enjoins on every dentist, in accordance with science and tested experience, to advise and, as far as possible, to inform the patient about the treatment the patient's condition requires.
(3) In the intervening year of can-kicking, you could argue that nothing's changed in terms of the options offered, from Brussels and Frankfurt, to Athens: they are still cordially enjoined to stick with the programme or leave the euro, and that programme is still one that nobody with a real choice would ever vote for.
(4) After recognition of the Sjögren's syndrome and a pseudolymphoma appearance, the risk of lymphomatous evolution enjoin a clinical close attention.
(5) Scottish Rite, its physicians, staff, agents, and employees are enjoined from taking any action inconsistent with this order.
(6) However, a previously approved University of California field trial involving the release of genetically-modified, frost-resistant bacteria is still enjoined pending the District Court's approval of an environmental assessment produced by NIH.
(7) The large amount and variety of group psychotherapy practiced today enjoins us to determine its morality, that is, its rightness or wrongness.
(8) In reality, the travel ban remains largely enjoined,” Schlanger said.
(9) Two California courts, one a local court and one federal court, have enjoined the release of footage based on pending lawsuits and the potentially illegal activities of CMP.
(10) All doctors are enjoined to audit, yet there is concern that many audits do not improve patient care.
(11) Collegiality was enjoined by the Second Vatican Council which ended its work in 1965, but only very partially implemented under Paul and the charismatic, but autocratic, John Paul.
(12) Marriage is positively enjoined and vigorously encouraged.
(13) Gandhi described Section 377 as "an archaic, repressive and unjust law that infringed on basic human rights" and said that [the Indian] constitution "has given us a great legacy … of liberalism of openness, that enjoin us to combat prejudice and discrimination of any kind".
(14) And he has insisted the country physically clean itself up, choosing Gandhi’s birthday to launch the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, enjoining his countrymen to sweep, tidy and beautify parks, streets and public places.
(15) The author enjoins social workers to maintain social work's values and ethics as they continue the roles of administrator, clinician, teacher, learner, researcher, and, most important, advocate for social policy and change.
(16) The real story behind Shell's climate change rhetoric Read more Here’s the backstory: In May, Shell convinced a federal judge in Alaska to enjoin Greenpeace from protesting too closely to Shell’s Arctic drilling vessels .
(17) A Michigan circuit court made permanent a temporary injunction enjoining defendant Jack Kevorkian, M.D., from implementing any device to assist people who wish to commit suicide.
(18) There is nothing in our constitution that enjoins us to respect the head of state, or to genuflect before him.
(19) "It would therefore have been deeply satisfying, on many levels, to litigate our case to the end and win, enjoining Google from scanning books and forcing it to destroy the scans it had made.
(20) Every dreamer of CMDs in our series had felt enjoined by the mother (in most cases with the father's collusion) not to see and regard her clearly and not to be an accurately reflecting mirror for her.