As Porter observes, the Enlightenment "decreed new ways of seeing".
In the 1960s the Second Vatican Council decreed new models of collegiality that would cede power to bishops, locally and collectively in synods.
PAGE A4 CENSORING CHINA'S BLOGGERS The Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo decreed new punishments for users who post comments that its editors -- and by extension, China's government censors -- deem inappropriate.
General Pervez Musharraf, the president, decreed new powers to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), allowing it to seal the offices of television and radio broadcasters, seize equipment and suspend operating licences.
BEIJING — One of China's largest hosts of Twitter-like microblogs decreed new punishments on Monday for users who post comments that its editors — and by extension, China's government censors — deem inappropriate.
In Mosul, the Islamist rebels have decreed new rules of conduct ordering all Muslim residents to attend the mosque for the five daily prayers, and banning alcohol and smoking.
He once stunned citizens by decreeing a new time zone for the nation, a half-hour behind its previous one.
He had decreed a new code of conduct for royal behavior, but it had not been published.
In Ohio, the buckle on the Rust Belt, the turnpike commission has decreed a new family of pleasure domes.
When the Manchus overthrew the Ming and established the Qing dynasty (1644 1911/12), it was decreed that new styles of dress should replace the pao costume.
Mr. Putin, who has decreed a new strategy to rebuild Russia's economic and military power in the Arctic, was scheduled to address the conference on Wednesday.
