The phrase "and the decree of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, formal, or authoritative contexts when referring to an official order or decision made by a governing body or authority.
Example: "The committee reviewed the proposal and the decree of the council was issued shortly thereafter."
Alternatives: "and the order of" or "and the ruling of".
Mr. Aboul Fotouh was expelled from the group for declaring his presidential candidacy as an individual outside the Brotherhood's political party and against the decree of its leaders.
On 26 February, Galileo was called to Bellarmine's residence and ordered The decree of the Congregation of the Index banned Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and other heliocentric works until correction.
During his reign, the Inquisition was successful in eliminating Protestantism in Italy, and the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545 63) were put into effect.
Cranmer accepted a commission to write a propaganda treatise in the king's interest, stating the course he proposed and defending it by arguments from Scripture, the Fathers, and the decrees of general councils.
It is divided into two parts that discuss (1) the doctrines that Christians are to believe concerning the nature of God and the decrees of God and their executions, and (2) the duties that Christians are to perform in regard to the moral law and in regard to the gospel.
The influential liturgical movement in the 20th century led to the revision of the liturgy of Holy Week under Pius XII in 1955 and culminated in the decree of the Second Vatican Council (1963) that allowed the introduction of the vernacular in the variable parts of the liturgy and ordered a complete revision of the missal to be carried out by a postconciliar commission.
It said in a press release that the world's poor would "suffer horribly if reliable energy – the engine of prosperity and a better life – is made more expensive and less reliable by the decree of global planners".
Dispatching a circular letter to all health units, hospitals and private clinics, including the decree of the Minister of Health forbidding the practice of circumcision, as well as the verdict of the Supreme Administrative Court supporting the decree and the perspective of the religious, medical and legal establishments on this issue.
To give the former NuLab government credit, it tried by every means possible (for both good reasons and bad) to avoid compliance with the decree of the court.
For al-Ghazālī would have granted that the causal connection between the decree of God and its effect is substantially different from the causal connection between a creaturely cause and its effect.
