The criteria by which we decree any event to be a sport are largely subjective, and activities that lie in its hinterland face an uphill struggle for recognition.
"Faced with the terrible catastrophe that strikes Lebanon at its heart, because of what the late leader gave through his efforts, his thinking, his reason and his heart, we decree a week of official mourning starting today," said Lebanon's prime minister, Selim al-Hoss.
By considering the constraints in generation side (i.e. (18)) and demand side (i.e. (24)), we decree that the coupling mechanism of G2P is guaranteed in this paper.
Strictly this refinement is unnecessary, because the winning strategies are not affected if we decree instead that a player who breaks the law loses immediately; but for many games this way of viewing them seems unnatural.
In 2011, on behalf of the Girls Advocacy Forum in Liberia, Norwu presented a decree to Nobel Prize winner President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and stated, "We decree that we will be stakeholders of our own development.
We're well aware that the polls still show you leading the pack, but we have decreed that this will not continue, so we're pretty sure it's going to stop soon.
And so it is, your honour, in sum, that we have decreed that Harper Simon should be allowed to make easy, breezy folk-pop till the end of time.
When "we" start decreeing that it's our way or the highway, trouble ensues.
Obviously, as the vast majority of Americans are navigating the world of rock music without succumbing in large majorities to these maladies, we can decree that Gore has well-earned her perpetual status as the butt of rock-enthusiasts' jokes.
"We are decreeing that according to our opinion, it is forbidden according to the Torah to participate in the evil plans of the NYC Health Dept. in any form," their statement said, according to a translation published by Yeshiva World News.
