In explaining the decisions, the regulatory commission decreed that Brighton had "in the events which have happened, benefited from the non-payment of most of the commission".
Fate decreed it was to be in this unpretentious hill town and it turned out to be, literally, a breath of fresh air.
And the age of austerity decreed by Europe's leaders as the answer to runaway debt, soaring deficits and a failing euro also supplies fertile ground for the populist campaigners.
And Craig decreed that he should have a nickname, and we couldn't think of one.
At one point he decreed that everyone should have a nickname, and not just a casual nickname, but a serious nickname that had been thought about.
Brentford's Warburton, a former City financier, would relish sticking two fingers up – metaphorically of course – at a board that has decreed he will be replaced with imported continental intellect willing to conform to a "mathematical modelling" system this summer.
Britain was still, by degrees, an affluent country in these years, but it was as if some cruel, neo-conservative social engineer had decreed that an entire section of the population was forever to be denied a share in it.
They are doing this because they have been presented with a mission by an extraordinarily imprudent US administration, which – having failed to prevent a very serious attack on civilians at home, largely by ignoring warnings – decreed that it would never again be put in a position where it "should have known".
After discovering the benefits of snacking, he is said to have decreed it law that all bars begin to serve food with alcohol.
✒On this dark lord's arrival, Sewell writes, he was at once informed that no sentence could begin with the letter "I", as Mail dogma decreed the breaking up of wastes of text with large, manly initial capitals, eg "M" or "W", whereas "I" was seen as "meagre and inadequate": "how, I asked, shall I quote 'In the beginning was the Word'?
A terrorism law decreed in December could ensnare more activists: those who seek to "harm the national interest", "compromise national unity" or "breach security or public peace" face life in prison if they are financed by foreigners.
