The Palestinian leader also decreed that elections for president and parliament would be held Jan. 20.

You know what our new leaders have decreed.

Mr. Ahmadinejad called for allowing women into stadiums, in an attempt to reverse a post-revolution ban when religious leaders decreed that sports arenas were not the proper environment for women.

Local Serbian leaders, however, have decreed a series of "special measures" because, they say, they want the Muslims to remain.

On Feb.1, the nation's leaders decreed average price increases of 27 percent for essential foods and services, including a 40 percent increase in food prices and a 60 percent increase for gasoline.

When Peru's leftist military leaders decreed land redistribution in 1969, the strategy was for peons who worked on expropriated estates to run cooperatives.

When the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, decreed a complete ban on poppy growing in July 2000, few foreign drug officials expected any results.

It was enough for him that the leaders of the Race had, in their wisdom, decreed certain actions be carried out here, and that a certain amount of blat must accompany the doing.

Its leader, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, decreed three days of mourning for Christians working for state institutions.

Aldhun, Bishop of Chester-le-Street and leader of the order decreed an holy fast of three days, accompanied by prayers to the saint.