Chief Justice Moore has decreed that his personal religious beliefs will now be the law of the land in Alabama.
Mr Ouattara has decreed that his ragtag bunch of armed groups, previously known as the New Forces, should now be known as the Republican Forces, or FRCI.
Scheherazade (Mili Avital) is betrothed to the sultan (Dougray Scott) -- a sleep-deprived neurotic getting crazier by the minute -- who has decreed that because his first wife betrayed him he will have his future wives executed the morning after the wedding.
And Mr. Kadyrov, a Chechen who has professed loyalty to the same Kremlin that many of his fellow Chechens fought for more than a decade, has decreed that by Dec. 31 his capital will bear no more of the marks of war that made Grozny worthy of its name.
His conversion comes at a literary seminar where the lecturer, challenged on his facts, has decreed that "inaccuracies can be subsumed as an inevitable part of postmodern uncertainty, or play, one or the other or both".
"Sooner or later they will leave anyway," says the son and spokesman of Ayatollah Sistani, the preeminent Shia scholar in Najaf, denying rumours that his father has decreed jihad against the invaders.
Mr Hollande has decreed a 30% pay cut for himself and his cabinet.
Despite Racine's efforts, posterity has decreed the play a misguided experiment to pour his tragic vision into Corneille's heroic mold.
Yet fate has decreed that they must share their state.
