(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.
Interlocutor
Definition:
(n.) One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
(n.) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
(2) In a meeting with another American official last summer, he explained his strategy of targeting rural populations and small towns, impressing his interlocutor.
(3) where the child is presented as the agent of a meaningful activity or not, shows how the place constructed for the baby as an interlocutor in maternal speech evolves with age.
(4) Henry VIII would have understood but modern-day interlocutors find it harder to grasp.
(5) According to diplomatic sources, Blair has been a key interlocutor in recent days.
(6) However, he said their Taliban interlocutors were "very silent" on the question of the Haqqani network, which has attacked US and Afghan forces from their base in Pakistan.
(7) Hamas’s new document must be recognised as an opportunity to engage with a crucial interlocutor that continues to enjoy some legitimacy among its constituents.
(8) Suhail said the Taliban are insistent that they want their first interlocutors to be the United States.
(9) He also says he dreamed that he carried a sword bearing the words "there is no god but Allah" written in red, and confirmed to his interlocutor that he harboured presidential ambitions outside of his visions.
(10) Pillay said her interlocutors painted a "very disturbing picture" of domestic violence, suggesting rape was fairly commonplace but rarely investigated.
(11) And it typically lacks solid conclusions, leading interlocutors nowhere.
(12) He is absolutely precise, he reacts as you would expect to his interlocutor, he analyses fairly quickly, answers questions that are put to him.
(13) Palestinians and their supporters have frequently charged that, rather than a neutral interlocutor, Blair is strongly pro-Israel.
(14) Like all ambassadors, part of his role is to report the views of others.” Speaking later in the House of Commons, Mark Garnier, a trade minister, said Rogers had been reporting the views of “interlocutors”.
(15) The Vatican was a key interlocutor in the secret negotiations that preceded the thaw.
(16) It is better to have an interlocutor who is not constantly looking for votes because they have had the election in order to work towards a good solution.
(17) Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
(18) The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother).
(19) Could there be movement on this central point, the possibility of Ipso collecting its money direct from those it regulates (with an independent finance interlocutor on hand to ensure fair play)?
(20) Kerry admitted to his Indian interlocutors that "on the Pakistani side of the border, a change was needed in the dynamics of how a fragile Pakistani civilian government and its strong military interacted with groups such as the Quetta Shura [the Taliban top leadership]" as well as the network of insurgents led by extremist cleric Jalaluddin Haqqani .