The board also decreed an end to all public input.
But when the Supreme Court, in 1954, decreed an end to school segregation, Virginia resisted.
No wonder that in parts of the US, food writers have decreed the end of the food truck.
Fidel Castro may have decreed an end to racism in Cuba, but that does not mean racism has simply gone away.
Before 1990, black Cubans suffered a paralysis of economic mobility while, paradoxically, the government decreed the end of racism in speeches and publications.
In February 1990, however, Mr. Gorbachev decreed an end to the Communist Party's monopoly on power and effectively told leaders in the Soviet republics that their problems were, well, their problems.
To contain legendary Italian inflation, he decreed an end to the automatic linking of wage increases to price rises; when his decision was confirmed by referendum, it enhanced his image as a bold leader.
As a ruse to rally opposition against a return to the pre-1952 order, the RCC decreed an end to restrictions on monarchy-era parties and the Free Officers' withdrawal from politics.
Mr. Medvedev's decree ended an internal debate in Russia, pitting supporters of sanctions against those trying to bolster economic relations with Iran, and about whether the Security Council sanctions included the air defense missiles.
Vice President José Alencar, standing in for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who is visiting the United States, Cuba and Mexico, said that he would sign a decree ending the ban, despite resistance from environmental advocates and their supporters in the government.
