He had put forth a decree that whosoever should be able to make her laugh should marry her.

他公开宣布，谁能逗她笑，就娶她为妻。

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He set them in place for ever and ever; he gave a decree that will never pass away.

他将这些立定，直到永永远远。他定了命，不能废去(废去或作越过)。

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In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.

当那些日子，该撒亚古士督有旨意下来，叫天下人民都报名上册。

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Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

King Abdullah issued a decree that the 150-member council be composed of at least 20% women, the official SPA news agency reported.

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The real reason is that Craxi had issued a decree that made it possible for Mr Berlusconi's television companies to build the national networks that have now given them a near monopoly on commercial broadcasting.

ECONOMIST: Italy

The Russian authorities had envisioned a gradual phasing out, but the Turkmen leader took them by surprise by issuing a decree that gave dual-citizenship-holders living in Turkmenistan only until June 22nd to decide which passport they wanted to keep.

ECONOMIST: Ethnic Russians are being driven out