The list given in the decree provides a handy example of a canon.
Some parts of the Bloomberg proposal would require court approval, because the city operates under a consent decree providing the homeless with a basic right to shelter.
The appointment, made last week, came more than a year after federal prosecutors and the union signed a consent decree providing for it.
Nonetheless, she said in an e-mail Monday, "the consent decree provides the F.D.A. with additional tools to address violations for other Ranbaxy facilities".
The decree provides for the creation of military councils with powers unprecedented in peace time in all military districts throughout the country.
Mr Allawi can rule by decree, provided that all three members of the presidency (a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurd) assent.
In addition, a parliament in 1314 decreed that all who remained in the allegiance of the English should forfeit their lands; this decree provided the means to reward supporters, and there are many charters regranting the lands so forfeited.
Along with these, the decree provided the death penalty for drug trafficking, for rape, and, in a provision that appeared to be specially drawn to cover Mr. Hussein and his associates, for any activity relating to biological or chemical warfare.
The negative response to the decree provided the first sign that some members of the political, military and business alliance that backed the coup are beginning to become uncomfortable with Mr. Micheletti's actions.
The language in Monday's presidential decree provides an insight into just how tight finances have become for Greece's recently elected anti-austerity government, led by Alexis Tsipras's Syriza.
