It also explains the equally palpable dismay when he followed his triumph with a series of decrees designed to suppress any possible opposition.

Charlemagne issued a number of decrees designed to break Saxon resistance and to inflict capital punishment on anyone observing heathen practices or disrespecting the king's peace.

"No decree designed to protect consumers has ever gone this far in meeting such a massive national consumer problem," Judge Gesell said.

He issued a series of revolutionary decrees designed, among other things, to eliminate forever all vestiges of religious influence over government and politics.

In 2008, Chávez passed a decree designed to implement Conarepol's recommendation on the national police force, and the National Bolivarian Police (PNB), and Experimental Security University began operations in 2009.

With two months to go before elections for a new Parliament, Mr. Yeltsin continued today to press ahead with a series of decrees designed to strengthen his political authority both in Moscow and in the country's far-flung regions.

In the next few days, Mr. Yeltsin is expected to sign another decree designed to change the structure of state enterprises by more rapidly privatizing them.

For example, one provision of the decree designed to sustain a market for used machines makes it difficult for I.B.M. to buy back its own machines, and thus raises the costs of cannibalizing spare parts for older mainframe computers.

Because of a presidential decree designed to give President Lon Nol's Social Republican Party an advantage, the other parties withdrew from participating.

Papée persuaded Greiser not to enforce various decrees designed to suppress the Danzig Opposition.