A decree issued this fall was the most extreme of all.

The decree also issued its Coat of arms, and flag, the flag, would later be used as the flag of the United Provinces.

From this room had issued the decrees and the pronouncements which had restricted and predetermined his life.

While the decree issued today heightened the important emotional element of the confrontation, it did not order any large-scale, overt action by the Soviet authorities or their troops.

The elections follow a decree issued on August 26 by President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, setting the date for the local ballot.

I saw that the decrees of what to me was Fate, were still issuing from those lips.

The episode is doubly troubling for Izvestia because under a Government decree issued this year newspapers are forbidden to publish letters without properly identifying the authors.

The decree issued today bluntly repudiated the reasons given by Mr. Chalabi when he announced the rationing.

In 1999, a decree was issued which - in that typically Italian way - modified the golden share without making any substantial change.

Whatever decrees issued at the colonial capital in Dakar were implemented at the discretion of local commanders, who usually preferred to leave social concerns to chiefs.