The phrase "as a decree" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that is issued or ordered with authority, often in a formal or legal context.
Example: "The new regulations were implemented as a decree from the governing body to ensure compliance."
Alternatives: "by mandate" or "as an order".
"No language is given life through something as fleeting as a decree".
The law — the Elimination of Violence Against Women Act — was issued in 2009 as a decree by President Hamid Karzai.
Mr Berlusconi then tried to get it on the statute book as a decree, but President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign it.
Berlusconi wants to pass the bill as a decree, with instant effect, rather than "wasting time" with a normal parliamentary bill which would take months and be amended.
The document, which the president's spokesman Aimal Faizi described in a Twitter message as a "decree on administrative reforms," is similar to an executive order and in theory must be complied with by all organs of government.
Efforts by women's rights activists and parliamentarians to ensure the 2009 Evaw law – signed as a decree by president Hamed Karzai but not yet ratified by parliament – is passed were thwarted by conservatives objecting that it was "un-Islamic".
As per a decree that came out in 1973, adoptees receive a gold medal and a college scholarship.
On 11 November 1927, with Constance Murray as petitioner, a decree nisi with costs against Henry Murray was granted on the grounds of desertion.
An appeal revives the underlying debate: Should shelter, as a 1981 consent decree maintains, be the ultimate safety net for those so poor, troubled or "socially dysfunctional" that they slip through the cracks of other systems?
The order came from Goebbels as part of a decree of total mobilization two months after the Allied invasion at Normandy.
The Yellow Ticket (1931) was set in tsarist Russia; to visit her imprisoned father, a Jewish schoolteacher (Elissa Landi) must obtain a yellow ticket meant for prostitutes so as to circumvent a decree against travel by Jews.
