He issued a series of decrees aimed at bringing about a thorough reorganization of government and society in Malta, and tirelessly sought to review the country's laws and regulations.

All Antonius and Cassius did was to veto a scurrilous decree aimed at them and, through them, aimed at me.

The ruble crossed the 1,900-threshold last week as President Boris Yeltsin signed a series of economic decrees aimed at stopping a drastic fall in production.

Spacil had issued a flurry of decrees aimed at extricating wealth from overrun cities and territories in the East.

President Virgilio Barco Vargas is preparing decrees aimed at confiscating most of the ranches, estates, yachts and airplanes impounded by the police in the last week.

Late this afternoon, President Barco issued a decree aimed at giving him greater control in areas where the drug traffickers have established dominance.

In agriculture, the Government has issued a series of decrees aimed at beating the sanctions.

They also made decrees aimed at some of the assumed rights by which the popes had extended their power and improved their finances at the expense of the local churches.

Decree 291 also cancelled a 1999 decree aimed at improving the permit process for church repair.

He signed three decrees aimed at pumping more money into the metal combines that dominate the northern part of the region.