The phrase "accepted the decree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone agreeing to or acknowledging an official order or decision made by an authority.
Example: "After much deliberation, the council accepted the decree regarding the new regulations."
Alternatives: "acknowledged the decree" or "consented to the decree."
The death of Valens in 378 at the Battle of Adrianople ended the imperial patronage of Arianism, and after Basil died on the following January 1, Gregory became the outstanding spokesman in Asia Minor of the Nicene party that accepted the decrees of the Council of Nicaea of 325.
And the chief of the Supreme Constitutional Court indicated that it did not accept the decree.
The Jacobites were members of a west Syrian church that refused to accept the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon concerning the nature of Christ.
It is also certain that the peace included undertakings to accept "the decrees of the Athenian allies"—a possible reference to the Second Athenian Confederacy and in any case a further strengthening of Athens's position.
In a statement Goldberg's family told Jewishnews that it "accepts the divine decree with love", adding that they would not be giving further statements to the press.
"I think it's just terrific as a first step to police reform," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at the University of Southern California and the author of a report for the police union that recommended accepting the consent decree and adopting similar changes.
Meanwhile, Turkey - which has been supporting the Syrian opposition - said it was "impossible" to accept the US decree, adding it planned to take action against it at the UN.
The peoples of the existing nations in the euro zone accepted the currency virtually at the decree of their political elites.
Why can't they simply accept the doctors' decrees?
At about six o'clock in the evening, the king made a belated effort to quell the rising tide of insurrection: he announced that he would accept the August decrees and the Declaration of the Rights of Man without qualification.
