(n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Egypt's Dar el-Ifta, a wing of the justice ministry that issues non-binding religious edicts, said al-Raqisa would destroy the moral structure of the country.
(2) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(3) In an interview on state TV aired late on Thursday, Morsi defended his edicts, saying they were a necessary "delicate surgery" to get Egypt through a transitional period and end instability he blamed on the lack of a constitution.
(4) In the past month, Dar el-Ifta, the wing of the justice ministry that issues religious edicts, may have condemned the extremism of Isis – but it has also condemned both belly-dancing and online communication between men and women.
(5) Only last month, a new edict allowed sub-divisional magistrates to use flashing blue beacons, though it insisted that only divisional and sub-divisional commissioners would be allowed to use red beacons.
(6) To Eller's most important achievements in Berlin belong the Medicinal Edict of 1725 as well as the management of the citizens' hospital opened in 1727.
(7) Democrats support the regulations and claim that Republicans are rolling back the edicts in order to appease fossil fuel interests.
(8) If that seems modest, he says he has complex planning issues to deal with, as well as edicts from central government – such as a push to sell off publicly owned land.
(9) US bans larger electronic devices on some flights from Middle East Read more Hours after the distribution of a “confidential” edict from the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), senior Trump administration officials told a hastily convened press briefing on Monday night the ban had been brought in after “evaluated intelligence” emerged that terrorists favored “smuggling explosive devices in various consumer items”.
(10) The no-entry edict prompted residents to rush back into the zone to grab as many belongings as they could before the order went into effect.
(11) An edict requiring gas sterilization rather than solution soaking of these instruments is in force in all federal hospitals.
(12) The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks, fuelling fears that any successful negotiations would come at a high cost to women.
(13) Brussels has been careful to issue no centralising edicts that might confirm the leavers’ caricature of the meddling EU.
(14) In some ways, neither the political orientation of Bani Walid nor edicts from central government matter.
(15) Seventeen defendants have been charged under the 2013 edict; if convicted, they could face up to five years in prison and a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds, (£4,388).
(16) His company makes small parts, meaning material costs are higher than labor, he said: “So there very often is a case that buying the material in the US is actually less expensive.” Clinton v Trump on the economy: speeches underscore competing visions Read more Still, the company has edicts from some of its customers to use locally sourced suppliers.
(17) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
(18) In any case, he knows he’s toast if he starts threading the Lib Dem manifesto through with Old Testament edicts.
(19) A Department for Transport edict still bans travel there from UK airports, Tipton said.
(20) It's not broke, in any sense of the word – unless you're one of the countless unfortunates to have suffered at the hands of its edicts or its evildoers, of course – so what in his employer's name is Francis up to with this suggestion that something needs to be fixed?