The council also promulgated decrees (documents on practical questions) on the pastoral duties of bishops, ecumenism, the Eastern-rite churches, the ministry and life of priests, the education for the priesthood, the religious life, the missionary activity of the church, the apostolate of the laity, and the media of social communication.
At the outset of his regency, Pedro promulgated decrees that guaranteed personal and property rights.
In its four annual sessions, the Council has promulgated sixteen decrees.
Corazon Aquino appointed him executive secretary, and he was instrumental in promulgating presidential decrees until a new legislature was up and running.
Pope Benedict appeared determined to push through their canonisation, in December authorising the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree attributing a miracle to the intercession of the men – a crucial step towards sainthood.
Poinso-Chapius promulgated a decree offering state assistance to certain Catholic schools; a decree that the anti-clerics, the Socialists and Radicals rose up against.
In 196 he promulgated the decree inscribed on the Rosetta Stone; found in 1799, it provided the key to the hieroglyphic, or pictographic writing, of ancient Egypt.
As president, Kabila initially banned political activity but in May 1998 promulgated a decree that established a national constituent and legislative assembly.
In May the Eastern region's consultative assembly authorized Ojukwu to establish a sovereign republic, while, at the same time, the federal military government promulgated a decree dividing the four regions into 12 states, including 6 in the north and 3 in the east, in an attempt to break the power of the regions.
To avoid the schism in the future, Third Lateran Council in 1179 promulgated the decree Licet de evitanda discordia, which established the rule that the Pope is elected with the majority of two thirds of the cardinals participating in the election.
Dharma is also often translated as "law," but to become a law, a set of rules has to be present which must: (i) be promulgated and decreed by an authority that enjoys political sovereignty over a given territory, (ii) be obligatory, (iii) be interpreted, adjudicated and enforced by courts, and (iv) carry penalties when it is breached.
