White and black, they all struggled with racist stereotyping that decreed that blacks were primitive, instinctual and spontaneous, and therefore, by nature, were suited to play "hot" jazz.
Mrs. Gardner, who died in 1924, protected her vision with an ironclad will that decreed that all the objects must remain exactly as she had placed them.
While a bishop can already lose his job under the existing canonical code for any "grave reasons", the Pope said he wanted to specify with the decree that such reasons included instances where bishops fail to tackle abuse cases adequately.
The story is told entirely from Rock's perspective, the filmmaker even prefacing the film with the decree that all its materials used came from the "mind, body, and soul of Michael David Rock".
Half a century later, Müller spent many hours talking with another Romanian victim of that decree, the poet Oskar Pastior.
Likewise, IBM's consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice lasted 46 years, even though mainframes were no longer relevant for the last 20 years of that decree.
Then in 1993, the government came to the rescue with a decree that created a special designation: "the bread of French tradition".
Mohamed Morsi had angered opponents last Thursday with a decree that expanded his powers and put any decision he took beyond legal oversight until parliament was in place.
For all the talk of democracy, the army is growing more autocratic as its difficulties mount: it lifted martial law on March 31st, but replaced it with a decree that grants the coup-maker turned prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, even greater power.
White House officials said Obama planned to use executive authorities to combine increased resources for border security with a decree that significantly expands the pool of undocumented migrants who are temporarily protected from deportation and eligible for government work permits.
