of Decree
Source: Webster's dictionaryI'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. Stephen Hawking
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. Erma Bombeck
About three hundred years ago, it was decreed by the Chief Circle that, since women are deficient in Reason but abundant in Emotion, they ought no longer to be treated as rational, nor receive any mental education. Edwin Abbott Abbott
If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. Augustus
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another? Bertolt Brecht
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. John Keats