It is possible to use "edict for" in written English, but it is not a commonly used phrase. It is more common to use "edict on" or "edict regarding" instead. Example: The king issued an edict for fair treatment of all citizens in the kingdom.
Even so, he backs Brooks's edict for the upcoming season.
It should not take a court's edict for lawmakers to do what is right.
Citing Mayor Newsom's edict for more healthy food in the city, they sought a change in the law.
So the president issued an informal edict for "business casual" on weekends — and set his own example.
Gilbert fleshed out the story: the jangling chord made by the sudden crash, the edict for steel-capped shoes that was issued soon afterward.
By contrast, the Jewish version ends in Second Chronicles, with an edict for the Jews to return home to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple, said Dr. Levine.
Critics blame their edicts for directly or indirectly provoking honor killings of couples who marry within the same gotra or village.
He also weaves in remarkable stories of Chinese entrepreneurs who disobeyed national edicts for a chance at a future, and who in the process are building modern China.
The disapproval of the community was palpable because they didn't conform to rigorous Mennonite edicts – for example, a convoy of thunderous-faced elders descended on them when Elf, a piano prodigy, won scholarships to study abroad.
Suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more statues daily, to chain up and restrain the poor.
So the chief rabbi had to settle last week for a garden picnic, in the beautiful surroundings of the Alhambra, the former Moorish palace in whose throne room one of the 1492 expulsion edicts for Jews was said to have been signed.
