After visiting Cleopatra with her purple sails and sofas (reputedly an early influence on DFS sofa sales) he came home with a purple toga, which he decreed only he could wear.
The following day (22 July 1964), Douglas-Home sent a memorandum to the Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, in which he "decreed that the United Kingdom should 'make life intolerable' for Nasser, 'with money and arms', and that this 'should be deniable if possible'".
The Prophet had little truck with QCs or even provincial solicitors, which is why he decreed that simply saying to your wife, "I divorce you," three times is enough to secure a divorce.
Mr. Corzine praised them for pursuing a college decree, which he said, would provide them "access to the American promise".
Chief William J. Bratton had pushed for the end of the consent decree, which he argued had become unnecessary and financially burdensome.
Others pointed to Mr. Morsi's decree — which he later repealed — elevating his decisions above the judiciary until the passage of a constitution.
Afghanistan's former director of archaeology, now teaching in France, said he was "devastated" by the decree, which he branded a "global cultural catastrophe".
In early January, Mr. Hayes was back in New York State Supreme Court on behalf of the coalition, trying to protect the Callahan decree, which he helped negotiate almost 20 years ago.
This famous decree, which he justified as an exercise of the president's war powers, applied only to those parts of the country actually under Confederate control, not to the loyal slave states nor to the federally occupied areas of the Confederacy.
Morsi was due to address the nation later today, calling for unity and support for his decree, which he insists is merely a temporary measure to ensure that the constituent assembly can continue its work without threat of dissolution by the Egyptian courts.
But in a statement issued on 7 February and in interviews, Kahn has called on Sarkozy to withdraw the decree, which he said had no chance of passing, and he called on the government to renew its dialogue with the academic world.
