His father, in turn, decreed that his own three sons would be doctors or earn Ph.D's.

"My father decreed that you are not to be molested."

His father decreed that all male Fitzgeralds should have Dennis as their middle name to remind them of his son's loyalty to the Crown.

In view of the previous accidents, Tristram's father decreed that the boy would receive an especially auspicious name, Trismegistus.

But Artemis's father, Zeus, has decreed that no mortal may gaze on her, and so she must turn her human lover into a deer.

Incredibly, Lee pictured her father, staff in hand, decreeing that she would marry Jonathan of Willoby.

One father decreed that his four children could not apply to colleges west of the Mississippi.

The bride's father, Madhavrao Scindia, decreed that no food or drinks would be serve in deference to the misery spread by drought in northern India.

But here, the chief's father decreed that anyone who cut down a tree within sight of a village would be punished: punishment for a second offence was banishment.

Gideon's own father had decreed that.