War Decree won his last race, the Grade 3 Koffy Diamond in Ireland, on a synthetic surface after running his first five races on turf.
Conversely, a baseball owner who can't stop himself from issuing a public decree on how winning must place a close second to breathing in the list of most vital human functions, who fancies himself a luxury suite protégé of an American military hero, most likely has a far different outlook on the classic series ahead.
An old-fashioned father, he proposes a coldly practical method of selection: the first man to identify every species of eucalyptus on his property, he decrees, shall win the hand of his daughter.
Democrats sued, winning a consent decree in which Republicans pledged not to repeat the tactics.
On February 17th, even as deputies were preparing to vote, the government felt forced to ram the law through by decree, for fear of not winning a majority.Left-wing rebels bleated; the right said François Hollande's presidency was over.
This is democracy in the rough, "and whoever wins decrees the fate of Tunisia for many years go come," says a political scientist, Hamadi Redissi.
She emphasizes the importance of enlisting national advocacy groups that can draw on lessons from court consent decrees they have won in suits against child welfare systems in at least 20 states.
Strip away the flamboyance and ready-to-go provocations and the Trumpite tilt to "big tent politics" and a readiness to "disagree as friends" is the concession of a man whose strategists have decreed he cannot win as a lone ranger.
Were Ohio decreed to Mr. Romney by fiat, Mr. Obama's chances of winning would decline to 57 percent from 70 percent in the forecast.
That may be in large part because winning political asylum requires a presidential decree.. . .
