Sentences with phrase «by decrees from»

But neither Hui nor Miller are able to carry through the ideas to their spirited, natural conclusions, either because they were constrained by decrees from on high or because they lacked the talent in themselves.

At the end of the process, the result is usually the same as though we were being ruled by decree from the Prime Minister's Office — which, in effect, we are.

In Paul's absence, a meeting in Jerusalem — sealed by a decree from James — stipulates requirements of purity for Gentile believers.

Not exact matches

Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by Canadian government decree in 2010, the company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.

A decree that will open up an area of the Amazon roughly the size of Denmark to mining has been widely criticized by everyone from supermodel Gisele Bundchen to lawmakers.

Back on March 1 the government, by its own decree, forced itself to cut $ 85 billion from its budget this year and the outlook was scary!

The dollar became a fiat currency, one backed by an arbitrary decree from the U.S. and the floating exchange rates we have today were born.

Tylenol was buffeted by a series of quality - related product recalls and shortages in recent years as it overhauled manufacturing under a consent decree from the Food and Drug Administration, with full production in the U.S. only resuming within the past year.

It must recognize the Constitution as a legal text subject to legal interpretation by judges who derive their authority to render a judicial decree from the existence of the Constitution as a source of law.

The new method amounts to a system in which ordinary law is replaced by «orders» or decrees coming from the executive or administrative branches.

God thus, in His most far - reaching foresight, decreed that this husband and wife should be the natural beginning of the human race, from whom it might be propagated and preserved by an unfailing fruitfulness throughout all futurity of time.»

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

From all eternity some were decreed by their sins to come into judgment or condemnation (Manton, Commentary on Jude, 128).

Man was created by God originally to be immortal in both body and soul, but because of his sin he was declared mortal.44 It was necessary for God to decree the dissolution of the body so that «sin might be altogether destroyed from the very roots».45 God's plan of the redemption of man involved a complete remodeling, so that what had been handed over to death should be rescued for eternity.

It is indeed this capacity to exist, by belonging to a system of freedoms, which is postulated here; thereby is concretized «that perspective» (Aussicht), evoked from the beginning of the Dialectic, that view «into a higher immutable order of things, in which we already are, and in which, to continue our existence in accordance with the supreme decree of reason, we may now, after this discovery, be directed by definite precepts» (p. 112).

Oh yes, that old antiquated law of holiday observance that must be obeyed or we shall receive 50 lashes, be subject to fines and imprisonment, brought before a firing squad, burned at the stake, and worst of all, face excommunication from the Church, as decreed by the Holy Roman Empire!

First, we must remember that in Scripture, and especially in Pauline theology, Jesus Christ is the ultimate elect one, and individual people become elect, not through an eternal divine decree from God, but by joining with Christ by faith.

Once passed, the new legislation will allow Christians to build and renovate their churches as stipulated by the constitution, a far cry from the days of toppled President Hosni Mubarak, when building and restoring churches required a presidential decree.

In other words, it is not thanks to magisterial Church documents that we have this central tenet of the Faith (although I am sure by now that it is certainly secured by decree of the Magisterium), but thanks to the faithful and saintly life and writings of one man from a far flung province of the Roman empire who would rather retreat to the quiet of the cloister than rule from the episcopal throne (though he clearly felt quite bitter about losing the latter).

God so governs the universe by his secret providence that while nothing happens apart from God's decree, his hand remains largely hidden from us.

Finally, in 1852, long after the Saints» exodus from Illinois (so there was no conceivable political or other cause for anyone to favor the Prophet), a federal judge concluded this litigation with a decree that found no fraud or other moral impropriety by the Prophet.

The Anglo - American idea... means that the party who does not abide by certain specific decrees emanating from a judicial body is a contumacious person and may, as a rule, be held in contempt of court, fined and jailed... Now, this very concept of contempt simply does not belong to the world of ideas of a Latin lawyer.

It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its most notable decrees, later promulgated by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held by the universal Church, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»

The struggle of earlier centuries to free the Church from domination by lay princes was increasingly resolved by the power of each King to appoint the bishops in his realm and to forbid any Papal decree from being published within his borders without his consent.

Outstanding was a decree declaring that the Papal election should be by the cardinals, that it need not be in Rome, that the Pope was not required to be a Roman, and that, in case of necessity, he might exercise his functions from another center than Rome.

The lack of a regulation - size home field not only limits the team's strategy, but it has impacted the support it has seen from its university fan base, a blatant disregard for the portion of the consent decree which requires Quinnipiac to increase the dimensions of the pitch to the maximum dimensions allowed by the International Rugby Board.

Back in 1997 there was a Health Ministry Decree which prohibited hospitals from becoming a «market» for formula milk; despite this, many hospitals still do it anyway through a soft - sell approach (giving out formula «gift packages»), by «terror» tactics (that breast milk is not enough), usurpation (feeding the baby formula unbeknownst to the mother), lies (that formula is better), or outright pressure.

Further, he will have the power to issue decree laws when he deems necessary, dissolve parliament by calling new elections, appoint cabinet members without approval from the legislature, and appoint a greater number of the members to the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors.

But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»

The decree — issued just after the start of a 9 - day holiday period — says that from now on, one - third of new academy members will be appointed by the government and one - third by the Council of Higher Education, a body that is also under the government's control.

Five sites are protected from logging by a government decree, but lumber is still removed from buffer zones around these sites.

It takes its name from the opening lines of Kublai Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: «In Xanadu did Kublai Khan / a stately pleasure dome decree...».

The summer box office season, as decreed by Box Office Mojo, begins on the first Fridawy of May, and finishes on Labour Day Weekend — so this year that will be from May 4th to September 4th, exactly four months.

The story goes like this: The Great God of the Forest, a mythical creature with the body of a deer, a human face and wooden horns that morphs into a giant, glistening blue amphibian at night (imagine Cecil, the Sea Serpent, dressed by Bob Mackie), has decreed that the forest gods may use any means to protect their domain from humans.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

And by and large, New Jersey has been a national leader in a number of efforts, from the aforementioned Abbott decrees to the takeover of four school districts that the state has claimed hit rock bottom.

Nor shall anything herein be construed to deprive courts of their power, by civil contempt proceedings, without a jury, to secure compliance with or to prevent obstruction of, as distinguished from punishment for violations of, any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of the court in accordance with the prevailing usages of law and equity, including the power of detention.

Straight - line acceleration is the DB9's strong suit, roaring into space with authority that must be granted by royal decree from Her Majesty the Queen.

In fact, since it is a claim decreed by a court, there's very little opportunity to have it removed from your credit report at all.

By approaching language and writing from the perspective of contemporary artistic practices, the exhibition seeks to break the conventions decreed by the academics of language and subvert the usual normBy approaching language and writing from the perspective of contemporary artistic practices, the exhibition seeks to break the conventions decreed by the academics of language and subvert the usual normby the academics of language and subvert the usual norms.

Thank heavens and Ed that we know that not one of these poor souls will die, since, by official decree, no one anywhere can ever die from nuclear radiation from a nuke plant!

On February 9th Ms Jackson submitted to her first interrogation, about one of the Republican Partyâ $ ™ s pet peeves: the EPAâ $ ™ s plan to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and factories by decree.

Comrade Lysenko, The great transmuter, Our brilliant tutor, No brain astuter, He gives us wheat from oats, He gives us sheep from goats, And by inbreeding stoats New forms of life promotes, And in a thousand ways Nature herself obeys Whatever he may decree.

The news has just come out that last week he signed a decree that removed waste discharges from a list of things that are banned by environmental laws.

Arlington, VA — A massive new marine protected area around Cocos Island is a beacon of hope for ocean health and human well - being in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and will offer endangered marine species such as hammerhead sharks and leatherback turtles, as well as fish stocks that are important to local communities, the chance to recover from increasing pressures, Conservation International (CI) said today in reaction to a decree by the Costa Rican government.

WHEREAS Skeeter Jones, good and gentle Labrador, attended faithfully with Ms. Amy Jones all prescribed Baylor Law School classes, dog - day in and dog - day out, until completion; WHEREAS he showed uncommon bravery in yawning loudly in abject dog - boredom during a certain lecture of Professor Jeremy Counseller, caring but little for the intricacies of removal and remand; WHEREAS he successfully begged for donuts from Professor David Guinn, having been unfairly tempted by the hi - jinks of the latter; WHEREAS Good Dog Skeeter completed the Practice Court program without being called upon once or reading nary a case, all knowing that a snarl would rebuff any such intrusion; WHEREAS he is now an older, wiser and even a bit fatter dog; WHEREAS those who survive Baylor Law School are entitled to all barking rights, entitlements and appurtenances thereto; THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY DECREED that Baylor University School of Law confers upon Skeeter the Labrador this

The written separation agreement was properly made a part of the final decree by virtue of Virginia Code Section 20 - 109.1, and was enforceable as any court order, even though spousal support is different from other monetary obligations.

In the present case, since it is apparent from paragraphs 29 and 30 above that neither Directive 2004/17 nor its underlying general principles impose on Member States a specific obligation to lay down provisions requiring the contracting entity to grant its contractual partner an upwards price review after the award of a contract, the provisions of Legislative Decree No 163/2006 at issue in the main proceedings, in so far as they do not provide for periodic price review within the sectors covered by that directive, do not have any connection with that directive and can not, therefore, be regarded as implementing EU law (C - 152 / 17, paras 33 - 35, references omitted and emphases added).

The AP reports that Facebook will only provide the estate of the deceased person with a download of the account data «if prior consent is obtained from or decreed by the deceased or mandated by law.»

Judicial separation is often, but not invariably, a first step towards divorce, and s. 4 (1) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 states expressly that a court shall not be precluded from granting a decree of divorce by reason only that a decree of judicial separation has previously been granted on substantially the same facts.