On this day, Drummond decreed, one should listen to no music whatsoever, and instead reflect on what we want and don't want from music in general.
Newsom decreed one tunnel as the likely sweet spot for a deal last week in delivering his first State of the State address.
This warm but upscale tavern has been around since the summer but I didn't discover it until it hosted an SF Beer Week three-course, paired beer dinner that was roundly decreed one of the best of Beer Weeks 600+ events.
Under their plans, "the mother of parliaments", once lauded as a beacon for fairness and equality before the law, would become home to the first elected body in the world to decree one of its constituent parts – Scotland – half in, half out of its lawmaking process.
During the Bush administration, by comparison, the department imposed only three consent decrees: one in Cincinnati and two in Detroit.
In 1818, a Congressional Act decreed that one star was to be added for each new state, and they were to be arrayed in a series of rows.
"We had been discussing every issue related to the economy, so to come across a decree no one had heard of was quite a shock," Illarionov told me.
The Purge is a film franchise that concerns a hypothetical America where the government has decreed that one night a year shall exist where, for twelve hours, all crime is legal.
Late Saturday, General Avril decreed a one-month state of siege, in order, he said, "to protect democratic accomplishments". There are shamefully few such accomplishments to show for four years of post-Duvalier rule, and the latest round of official intimidation does nothing to protect them.
But if that same individual later commits a crime, is slapped with a restraining order or becomes mentally unstable, Ashcroft has decreed no one should know.
The government has passed two decrees: one declaring a state of national emergency with immediate effect, the second allowing police in Paris to keep "dangerous" persons under house arrest and to temporarily close all concert halls and theaters.
