Spanish-English translations for decretar

• award
  the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant
  Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
  He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• decree
  Confidence can neither be decreed nor purchased. La confianza no se puede decretar ni comprar.
  It is difficult to decree normality in a country by waving the barrel of a kalashnikov. Es difícil decretar normalidad en un país empuñando un kalashnikov.
  In particular, it is not Europe's role to decree, on the basis of scientific studies, which are only of value until the next studies that contradict them, that smoking cannabis is a good thing. En concreto, no es tarea de Europa decretar, sobre la base de estudios científicos que solo tienen valor hasta que los siguientes estudios los ponen en tela de juicio, que fumar cannabis es bueno.

Related words

• decreto