Example sentences of "to rule by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gorbachev may well use his powers to rule by decree to push the reform through . |
| 2 | The powers allow it to rule by decree and declare a state of war . |
| 3 | Yeltsin supporters , who formed a ‘ creative coalition ’ within the chamber , have ensured that the emergency powers to rule by decree for a year , which Congress bestowed on the President last autumn , remain wholly intact . |
| 4 | On Wednesday , deputies meekly passed a declaration confirming the Russian president 's powers to rule by decree , appoint ministers himself until December and push through market reforms . |
| 5 | Article 38 permits the government to rule by decree . |
| 6 | This is in addition to the powers to rule by decree as a result of the circumscription of parliament 's areas of competence ( Article 34 ) . |
| 7 | In the face of growing crisis , Gorbachev tried to get more and more power transferred to himself in order to rule by decree . |
| 8 | He was given extensive powers , including the right to appoint the government , to rule by decree as necessary , and to declare war . |
| 9 | On Sept. 2 Poland 's Solidarity-dominated Cabinet proposed legislation to give the government power to rule by decree until after the Oct. 27 elections , bypassing parliament on economic and other policy areas , except human rights and fundamental state institutions . |
| 10 | Sept. 24 : the Congress of People 's Deputies voted Gorbachev emergency powers to rule by decree [ see pp. 37721-22 ] . |
| 11 | The National Assembly also voted to allow President André Kolingba to rule by decree until a new multiparty legislature was elected . |
| 12 | Some fundamental steps in the constitutional development of the country were the Bill of Rights 1689 which limited the power of the monarch to rule by virtue of the royal prerogative and the Act of Settlement 1700 which further strengthened the power of Parliament and provided for the succession to the English throne . |
| 13 | Instead , the regimes which continue to rule by repression because they generally lack any popular legitimacy are to become the jewels in the new Western security crown . |
| 14 | In the seventeenth century James I , by insisting on his right to rule by prerogative , created the conditions in which the battle between the Monarch and Parliament for supremacy was fought in the courts . |
| 15 | The claims by the Stuart kings to rule by prerogative were resolved by the Bill of Rights 1689 . |