How to Use by decree in a Sentence

by decree

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• Before he was gunned down in his home, Moïse, 53, had been ruling Haiti by decree for more than a year.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2021
• At the time, Moïse was ruling by decree and facing growing opposition protests.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• In the absence of a legislative assembly, Abbas has ruled by decree for 15 years.
  — Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
• Bringing People Through the Wormhole Of course, none of this happens by decree.
  — Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• Advertisement Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005 but has ruled by decree since.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 July 2026
• That’s because at present, the two senators are trying to make financial institutions big by decree.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Castillo was impeached last week after attempting to dissolve Congress and govern by decree.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• That would amount to a declaration that there are no limits left—that a president can invent an emergency in order to rule by decree, on anything.
  — Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
• Translated, the pain of ad-free Meta sites by decree will be felt most acutely by European businesses striving for growth.
  — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
• Above all, Trump attempts to govern by decree, unconstrained by norms, shame, or the Constitution.
  — Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• Erdoğan’s victory brought him total control over the judiciary and the ability to make law by decree, among other powers.
  — Kaya Genç, The Dial, 3 Feb. 2026
• She was partly obscured by construction, then whitewashed for advertising space, restored by decree and killed off again by ugly graffiti.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• The legislation, filed on parliament’s website, would extend Orban’s ability to rule by decree beyond the end of the month.
  — Zoltan Simon, Bloomberg.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• The old playbook — command and control, information as power, transformation by decree — just doesn’t work anymore.
  — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
• The president’s decision to instate muerte cruzada means that Lasso can rule by decree until elections are held for a new president and legislative body.
  — Marlon Sorto, CNN, 17 May 2023
• Protesters accused him of overstaying his term, of controlling local gangs and of ruling by decree as the nation’s institutions were being hollowed out.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• In a day of turmoil for the nation off southern Africa’s coast, the 51-year-old leader, whose whereabouts are unknown, earlier sought to dissolve the lower house by decree.
  — CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
• South Korea’s political system needs bold reform to diffuse power and remove the incentives for presidents to attempt to rule by decree.
  — Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2025
• But nothing is proceeding as normal because the new liberal government is behaving as if the last eight years have been entirely an aberration, to be annulled by decree rather than reformed by law.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• Saied embarked on a major power grab in 2021, ousting the government, dissolving parliament, and deciding to rule by decree.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023
• Trump’s unprecedented use of nearly 100 executive orders in the first two months of his presidency aims to enact a vast policy agenda by decree.
  — Jennifer Victor, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2025
• The civil unrest began after Castillo attempted to dissolve the country’s Congress and rule by decree on December 7.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
• The one piece of really good news, not just for Brazil but for the planet, is that restoring protections to the Amazon is something that can largely be done by decree, and these are moves Lula will unquestionably make.
  — David Rieff, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Abbas had effectively ruled by decree since 2007, without parliamentary or institutional oversight of any kind.
  — Khaled Elgindy, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2024
• Corporate America, Zandi implies, may soon find itself in the same position—committed not by decree, but by the sheer weight of investment, debt, and competitive pressure.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2026
• Meanwhile, over at Uber and Lyft, the ride-sharing companies, geography and time do matter—but these two companies simply set prices by decree; there is no user choice or need for transparency in how the prices are determined.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2015
• In the Sixties in Greece, under military rule, the music of Mikis Theodorakis was prohibited by decree, its composer imprisoned and exiled.
  — Christina Hioureas, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2026
• The Emergency granted the Prime Minister authority to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Aug. 2024
• Erdogan will be able to rule by decree, bypassing parliament and regional authorities controlled by opposition parties, and his government can limit fundamental rights.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 Feb. 2023
• Pinto noted that the president has made many of his more notable decisions by decree, including deploying the army to Ecuador’s streets to combat gangs and building a new prison for 800 of the country’s most violent criminals.
  — Max Saltman, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025