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.
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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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").
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.
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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