Most were thought to have been destroyed after Spanish officials decreed them to be idolatrous in 1583.
Or his successor could establish the tone of his papacy by decreeing them within the first weeks of his election.
The state contended that neither of two rival factions met the federal standard as ongoing tribes, but federal officials decreed them one legitimate tribe.
Miners, on the other hand, were being battered by an authoritarian government that decreed them to be "the enemy within" and faced brutality on picket lines.
Like canned peaches and Crisco, a few out-of-print cookbooks have stayed in demand long after the food experts have decreed them dated.
In 1644 the Long Parliament actually forbade the public reading of these books, and three years later the Westminster Confession of the Presbyterians decreed them to be no part of the canon.
If baked beans are in fact non-negotiable – and Metro once decreed them to be the second best element of a FEB, although with somewhat dubious authority given that they're described as "perfect for dipping eggs into" (how?) – then is their function to provide liquidity or "tomatoeyness"?
In many ways both Johnson and Cravan shared a certain modernist restlessness — lives striving to reach a kind of terminal velocity that might outrun the fate their births had decreed for them.
"We can learn from our experiences with the consent decrees on how to frame them and how to monitor them," said Richard Blumenthal, the attorney general in Connecticut.
The council's standing committee approved the changes on April 19 and Premier Wen Jiabao signed decrees putting them into effect on April 24, the council said.
