On September 3rd, he issued a decree speeding up the procedure for confiscating drug traffickers' assets.
An initial government decree set up 35 control points, followed by 10 others.
The decree sets up a system for investigating shootings by officers, and a way of keeping track of police-conduct reports (and thus providing early warning of officers turning bad).
And a decree setting up a new intelligence-system, dubbed the "Gestapo law", was repealed on June 10th, less than a fortnight after its introduction, following an outcry from human-rights groups.
The Pentagon said that a no-flight zone would necessitate a forceful air campaign, not a mere decree backed up by patrols; by the time the United States and its allies intervened, Mr. McCain had become a vocal critic of the campaign, saying that its long delay had made it relatively ineffective.
YEREVAN, 8 November 2011 -- Speaker of the National Assembly of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan signed last week a decree, setting up a Multi-Partisan Parliamentary Working Group on Child Rights.
Napoleon had begun by drafting 60,000 Frenchmen annually, but by 1810 the quota hit 120,000, and the first of many "supplementary levies" was decreed to call up men from earlier classes who had drawn high numbers.
In 1990, ExxonMobil entered into two consent decrees to clean up the spill, roughly 17 million gallons of oil and other chemicals that leaked into the ground over more than 140 years of use by petroleum companies and were exacerbated by an ExxonMobil tank explosion in 1950.
But while federal oversight is theoretically intended to help reduce the unreasonable use of force and other constitutional violations, the success of the DOJ's consent decrees is still up for debate.
