In the last several months, he has stepped up his use of emergency decrees and edicts to impose changes that other political parties and Greece's unions have a long history of trying to thwart.
European history is riddled with edicts, decrees, and encyclicals banning and condemning gambling, which indirectly testify to its popularity in all strata of society.
From there, edicts and decrees were read to the assembled masses, and once a year the tsar would present himself to the people.
But fairytale sorcerers lay down their own edicts and decrees.
When the troika came to Ireland, they did not have to impose a programme, hand down edicts or enforce decrees.
Judge Pregerson, who grew up in diverse East Los Angeles, wielded formidable influence not only in interpreting the law but also by using his bully pulpit on the bench and functioning, through edicts and consent decrees, as a social engineer.
The emperor had the exclusive right to modify the law code and issue new laws in the form of imperial edicts (zhao 詔) and decrees (ling 令).
But large signs posted by the front door list edicts that are more Communist Party decrees than Koranic doctrines.
Here, the word 'rescript' is used to sense of "edict, decree", not "reply to a query or other document".
That Mr. Obama has issued fewer edicts (so far) than his predecessors does not thereby justify his decrees, but it does allow us to question the unrestrained hyperbole we've been hearing from the right-hand side of the American political spectrum.
By the sixties, its edicts, as set out by early practitioners like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Little Richard, were decreed in full: rock and roll should be scrappy and instinctive, a wild and unstable expression that appears free of mediation or meddling, even (especially) when it's not.
