Since even the mankiest animal was decreed to be worth at least the standard value, the prices put on most beasts rose far higher.
This year was decreed to be the city's 250th anniversary, & in celebration of it most of the important buildings have been cleaned & painted The fountains have been scrubbed, & statues have been repaired.
This is tantamount to abandoning our fixation with our so-called way of life that is repeatedly presented to us as a given because, at some point, it was decreed to be so.
But there is also always one person who is decreed to be the weirdest, loopiest, LOL-iest show in town, the one about whom anyone can say anything and, no matter how deranged it sounds, it will have the smack of plausibility to it.
That point was upheld by the panel, and indeed conceded by Welsh at the appeal, but the issue of competition law was decreed to be of greater significance.
The entire Oregon Country was decreed to be covered by four administrative divisions.
On 7 April 1795, the gramme, upon which the kilogram is based, was decreed to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube of one hundredth of a metre, and at the temperature of the melting ice".
Nearly eleven million people plumped for her, despite what was generally decreed to be a calamitous performance in the May 3rd debate with Macron.
At the beginning of the year before England embarked on their madcap sequence of 17 matches in nine months the toughest assignment was generally decreed to be the last.
Did the genesis of the white man's burden lie in Rudyard Kipling's inventive mind or was it decreed to be so by history's destiny?
