By the time decrees abolishing craft associations were enacted in France (1791), Spain (1840), Austria and Germany (1859 60), and Italy (1864), the guilds' authority had long been on the wane.
When Prachanda was 6 or 7, the family moved along with hundreds of thousand of others from the mountains of central and northern Nepal to the country's fertile southern plains after King Mahendra, the Hindu kingdom's ruler at the time, decreed democratic elections and large-scale land reform.
The film was marketed as a modern day fairytale, starred such household names as Jeff Goldblum and was, at the time, decreed to be a "sleeper hit" after it grossed 30 million dollars worldwide, outstripping its modest ten-million-dollar budget.
He may even be, as The Los Angeles Times decreed in a flight of soaring hyperbole, "the most powerful critic of any kind, anywhere".
The committee was appointed on 26 June 1946 and published its first report in July, which reduced the time between decree nisi and decree absolute from 6 months to 6 weeks.
Shifting time by decree is not a new phenomenon in the Pacific.
Except in rare cases, the animals can be legally killed only with case-by-case approval from the authorities; by the time a decree has been pronounced and a hunting party raised, the wolves have generally vanished into the hills.
The time delay decreed the fortune of this project, which was born already mature, with plenty of time for reflection.
In the 10 44 a.m. variant, Krugman dismissed Bernie as "not ready for prime time" and decreed that it was illegitimate to critique the Gang of 4's critique.
Time magazine has decreed that 2014 was the year of the selfie.
The announcement appeared to be part of an emerging pattern in Syria, where Mr. Assad had several times issued decrees that appeared to answer protesters' demands for greater freedom, while his security forces continued to kill and detain those who demonstrated.
