(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?
Table
Definition:
(n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
(n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
(n.) a memorandum book.
(n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
(n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
(n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
(n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
(n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
(n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
(n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
(n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
(n.) The company assembled round a table.
(n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
(n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
(n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
(n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
(n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
(n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
(n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
(n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
(n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
(v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
(v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
(v. t.) To supply with food; to feed.
(v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
(v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
(v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
(v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
(v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(2) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(3) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(4) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
(5) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(6) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
(7) But what about phenomena such as table tipping and Ouija boards?
(8) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
(9) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(10) Table I shows the effect of increasing concentrations of propolis in tryptose-agar (TA).
(11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
(12) These findings suggest that development of standard ECG tables in which SMR and sex have been taken into account might enhance interpretation during adolescence.
(13) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(14) A table of the lengths of statistically significant intervals for various sampling interval lengths, numbers of subjects, and autocorrelation parameters is presented.
(15) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(16) The results are summarized in Table I, indicating that the ratio of formation of the cis product (2) increases as a solvent becomes more polar.
(17) The properties of these tumour-associated "antigens" in the membrane of rat sarcomata are summarized below: [Table: see text]
(18) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(19) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(20) The increase of the spleen weight after infection was significantly smaller in the immunized groups (Table 2).