"decree" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The president could rule by decree without referring to the constitution or to parliament.
- With no legislature that can really challenge him, he rules essentially by decree.
- Those were surprising words coming from a man whose father has ruled for 35 years largely by decree.
- The government attempted to rule by decree, ignoring its own constitution.
- Until the new constitution was written, he ruled by decree.
- In the meantime, the government was to rule by decree.
- Democracy will obviously be hard to accept for people who once ruled by decree but are now forced to debate every decision.
- This act allowed Chávez to rule by decree for one year.
- As the opposition continued their boycott, the government decided it had no alternative but to rule by decree.
- The powers allow it to rule by decree and declare a state of war.
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