Synonyms for decrees
de·crees

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1. List of paraphrases for "decrees":

   edicts, decretos, orders-in-council, orders, ordinances, decree, enactments, resolutions, sub-decrees

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1. Alex Kozinski:

   The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

2. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

3. Giuseppe Mazzini:

   Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

4. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   A government's legacy isn’t etched in its decrees, but in the lasting positive transformation it brings to the lives of its citizens.

5. Dwayne Crawford:

   Consent decrees are sometimes appropriate to enact a shared goal. These agreements are not one-sided. The Justice Department has been given these tools by Congress and I believe it is important that The Justice Department consider all tools at The Justice Department disposal when tailoring resolutions.