"We cannot allow a few people in power to control the will of the majority by decree."

A. We don't want to do things by presidential decree.

In May 2002 the government dissolved the association by decree.

First of all, I think that citizenship cannot happen by decree, but is something which comes with practice.

Since then, by presidential decree major parts of his businesses came under government control.

In the meantime, the government was to rule by decree.

He added, "Kings are the only ones who do things by decree, but no one here is a king."

No matter what the citizens of his empire may want to think, it is we who are wrong by decree.

July 9, 1863 - made effective Major, by decree of the same date.

They drove from there directly to the school, now empty by decree.