#decree

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#diet #dissolved #government #reich

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#after #anger #another #another way #because

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#beyond #certain #certain age #decreed #jacket

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#apart #believe #certain #decree #determination

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature. ↗

— William Ames

#decree #divine #divine nature #efficiency #exercise

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#circumstances #constitute #decree #fate #fortuitous

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#american #authorizing #before #decree #enslavement

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

#cannot #decreed #digs #fatigued #fed

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#another #attack #country #day #days

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#become #been #correct #day #decree