Queen Victoria (who of course married the very royal Prince Albert, her cousin) was widely thought to have decreed that her family should not be restricted to royal spouses.
Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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The CEO in yet another organization decided one day that outside callers were going to voice mail too often, and so decreed that no one in the company would have voice mail.
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To avoid further rows, Congress decreed that the December poll would use the 1992 census.
Car makers began to take fuel cells seriously after California decreed that, by 2004, a tenth of all cars they sold in the state must not produce emissions, on pain of being barred from the market.
To rectify the problem, he's decreed that English be taught in all schools beginning in first grade and computer education in second.
Just before the presidential run-off, the SCAF-appointed justice minister decreed that army officers have the right to arrest civilians, in what appeared, in effect, a return to Mr Mubarak's hated emergency laws.
Thus the Constitution decreed that Washington had no occasion or authority to interject itself into matters as obviously local as doctrines of faith.
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The Second Circuit court, though, also decreed that Christian Louboutin retains the exclusive right to use the color red on the bottom of its shoes whenever the outer portion of the shoe is any color besides red.
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These bureaucrats, however, like the ineffectual, but budget-rich, bilingual method, so they have decreed that kids can't be taught to read until they become fully fluent in English -- which, they say, may take a couple of years.
If natural selection has decreed that some women have genes which allow them to live longer than others, and therefore to have more children, why have those genes not spread through the whole population?
Those same balconies became a negative focal point in 1673, when King Carlos II decreed that shopkeepers could raise tarpaulins above their stalls to fend off the raw sewage that the residents habitually tossed from the windows above.
It decreed that if a pensioner died, benefits would continue to be paid to the widow and dependents.
More important, the bill decreed that beginning in 1975, Social Security benefits were to be keyed to the Consumer Price Index.
He decreed that no U.S. funding can go to new stem-cell lines ("That cluster of cells is the same way you and I started our lives").
Prof Perotti despairs, comparing it to the time of Nero, when the notoriously mad Roman Emperor decreed that no citizen could ever leave his family's allotted profession.
American companies are adding to the trend by moving more of their important operations to India: John Chambers, Cisco's boss, has decreed that 20% of the firm's leadership should be in Bangalore.
This difference, " according to Wishy, "is not surprising for it had not been decreed that the mother formally replace the father.
The Commission Generale de Terminologie et de Neologisme has decreed that hashtag will be no more, in a further bid to stop English invading the language.
To deal with a mounting water crisis, for example, General Musharraf has decreed that three long-stalled dams will be built in Punjab and North-West Frontier Province.
Whereas the government argued that the intention of the Basic Law, China's mini-constitution for the former British colony, was to allow in only children born after their parents had acquired residency, the court decreed that the Basic Law plainly did not express that intention.
According to Southern Weekend, a Chinese newspaper, the party's organisation department decreed in 2010 that political-legal committee heads should no longer double as police chiefs.
Our prime minister recently decreed that government convoys could no longer travel against the traffic flow, firing guns to clear the way.
George V had decreed that the titles Royal Highness (HRH) and prince and princess should be restricted to the children of the sovereign, the children of the sovereign's sons, and the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
Congressional mandates, moreover, have decreed that by 2022, biofuels blended into the U.S. gasoline stock will increase to 35 billion gallons per year.
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In March the authorities decreed that companies must register their catalogues with local bodies known as industry and commerce bureaus before distributing them to dealers.
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