The colossal seat of government that the British decreed at New Delhi in the twilight of the Raj is given politically inflected interpretations in two books on that vaingloriously quixotic venture.
Mr Wallace, who previously ran the firm's British cable arm, decreed that from now on Cable & Wireless would concentrate solely on the data requirements of global business customers.
That was the rallying cry of the recent British budget, which decreed that those who accumulate a pension pot no longer must use the proceeds to buy an annuity on retiring.The change will bring Britain into line with America and Australia, where those retiring have immediate access to their pension pots.
Philida's resolve to seek justice is strengthened by the rumor — soon to become reality — that the British are planning to decree the emancipation of slaves in the Empire, including the Cape Colony, but her complaint comes two years too early to save her from further abuse by her owners, who eventually sell her off with her children upcountry.
The European court of human rights has decreed that British prisoners must get the franchise, and British MPs are enraged.
Historically, the best known are those issued in November and December 1807, which imposed a blockade on Napoleonic Europe by the British and, in response, the decree by which the French might seize any neutral ship that complied with the British regulations.
Is it really, as some critics have decreed, the worst British movie ever made?
That explains why Ms Eweida was not successful in British courts, where it was decreed that wearing a cross was not a universal requirement for Christians.But the ECHR, an arm of the 47-nation Council of Europe, takes a more individualistic view.
Not one to be put off, he took the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, which last year decreed that the British stance did not violate its convention.But his battle caught the attention of Viviane Reding, a European commissioner, who met Mr Shindler in September.
