decreed

When I ran breathlessly through her list of triumphs — “Anything Goes,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” among them — Farrow decreed that they should name a theater after her friend.

Among other things, it decreed that “a miscarried or aborted fetus must be interred or cremated.”

This has already played out once: After Trump lost the 2020 election, Wallnau held nearly daily rants about the stolen election on Facebook Live; he decreed in one online prayer call that God would overturn the election results.

For example, this year, on June 14, I can for first time say that Colorado and Mayor Mike Johnston decreed that June proceeded to be Black Pride Day.

The convention chairman — then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — decreed the resolution had passed, and so it did.