decree

Its primary tool—so-called consent decrees—don’t allow the agency to impose fines for a first offense and, when a company violates those decrees, the penalties haven’t been enough to change their behavior.

Atalanta is a young princess, and her father has decreed she must marry whichever man wins a footrace.

There would not be female priests, he decreed: “That door is closed.”

Harry, it has been decreed, will not be photographed near any alcohol.

In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev decreed that the Chechens could return to their ancestral homelands.

Restive al Anbar province, the decreed center of a new al Qaeda state, was lost.

The French convention decreed that no quarters be given to British and Hanoverian soldiers.

After all, the penalties inflicted on the press, though not decreed by juries, were somewhat more severe than those of to-day.

On one occasion they decreed that a certain man whom they considered in fault was to pay a fine.

That set the son, who had hitherto been acting just as custom decreed, thinking about things in a new way.

Why should he question the Sphinx of Fate, or quarrel with destinies the high gods had decreed?