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Benign as these edicts often were, this path was doubly risky.
A number of works here reflect the early edicts of AfriCOBRA.
When in New Orleans, put all healthy food edicts on hold.
In 2016 it ignored such edicts more than two dozen times.
The Supreme Court has no way to actually enforce its edicts.
A retro tradition get a (temporary) boost from social-distancing edicts.
He wrote "ukase", a Russian term that refers to edicts or pronouncements.
At every parental milestone, there's someone dishing edicts that aren't necessarily universal.
He said he hadn't shaved in six months, obeying Islamic State edicts.
The Civil Service will begin to ignore the sloppy White House edicts.
The ministry makes them all the time but its edicts are typically flouted.
Domestically, Trump's executive edicts will not immediately reverse America's energy and emissions course.
The first censorship law was based on similar edicts issued by Napoleon III.
If these edicts do not pass a cost-benefit analysis, they should expire automatically.
Agencies have rarely combed over old edicts to see whether they are worth keeping.
Other than those broad edicts, I wasn't given any advance information about the experience.
"Treatment of the dead is one of the greatest Jewish edicts," said Weissenstern, 71.
The Trump administration has issued a rapid-fire series of anti-immigration edicts recently.
If the party is so powerful, how can its edicts be so blatantly disregarded?
The vendors are standing firm against the city's edicts, insisting they will not budge.
France says it has issued 100,000 fines to people who broke social-distancing edicts.
He and his successors pushed al-Azhar to issue fatwas (religious edicts) justifying their policies.
Moreover both former presidents honoured the constitutional system; when their edicts were checked, they retreated.
Intended for an alien army of occupation, they remain protected by sweeping pre-independence edicts.
They are, in other words, anything but passive recipients of edicts handed down from Washington.
Far from apologizing, the judge insisted he had a duty to relay such celestial edicts.
But such political edicts pale in significance to the changes in the methodology of scientific reports.
Strict edicts announced by the education minister, Yuan Guiren, in early 2015 signaled the official disfavor.
They're on the right, among people who see the government and its edicts as oppressive forces.
They are afraid to leave the house without covering themselves completely, still mindful of ISIS' edicts.
Just as the pope in Rome can issue edicts, so, too, can bosses in Police Headquarters.
There haven't been any recent public edicts from the I.R.S. on the topic, Mr. Zidik said.
Such edicts are likely to fuel opposition accusations of intimidation and dirty tricks by the security forces.
Among his many edicts, Mr Osinbajo has ordered immigration officials to process visas for investors more quickly.
These aren't arbitrary edicts; vexillological expert Ted Kaye canonized them in his book, Good Flag, Bad Flag.
Their edicts, though, are no match for the widely-shared photos of dogs frolicking on the beach.
Of course, the new administration did not have to rescind the Obama administration's edicts regarding transgendered students.
That's harder, he said, because such edicts can be perceived by some as impinging on personal freedom.
Edicts about how to look or how to behave, regardless of hair color, were losing their resonance.
It would have been much healthier to have female voices sharing in the handing down of edicts.
Recent edicts propose to make it compulsory for everything from booking train tickets to owning a mobile phone.
Officials in the district of Swabi and the village of Shabqadar have followed up with legally tenuous edicts.
The Palestinian Dar al-Ifta, an institute within the Palestinian Authority that issues religious edicts, condemned the arrest.
The professional network has followed the censorship edicts of Beijing, much to the chagrin of human rights organizers.
"We're hearing from employees that there has been nothing concrete besides the edicts [coming from Trump]," Ruch said.
The war also opened a window into a country where modernity clashed with tribal customs and religious edicts.
Dads are lawful creatures who gently hand down edicts intended to better your life; they're good on the grill.
And unlike the President's recent bathroom edicts for schools, no money will be cut off for our poorest schools.
Too often, national governments flout the edicts of the single market so as to protect a politically connected industry.
"It's within every leader's right to make edicts," says someone who was in the room for many Zuckerberg decisions.
Instead of seeking guidance from ancient edicts, we need to re-evaluate just what patients face in modern times.
Breakingviews Small overseas firms often feel helpless against American regulators, some of which render edicts after opaque and secretive processes.
The MUI is responsible for issuing fatwas, or religious edicts, and providing religious guidance, carrying moral force, but not legal.
When Fidel Castro came to power after the revolution, one of his early edicts essentially sought an end to racism.
Many sellers have heard the staging edicts to paint all their walls off-white, and to remove all personal photos.
During welfare reform under Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, similar edicts disrupted people's benefits without improving their employment prospects.
And because they would be statutory changes, not mere presidential edicts, these changes would likely long outlive the Trump administration.
She, too, had broken rules, in her case by divorcing when the Catholic Church's edicts held firm in her family.
The prelates who organized the summit argued that any papal edicts might fall flat or fade away with Francis' papacy.
She hands us a packet and leads us into a corner decorated with magic marker-ed edicts for effective canvassing.
"New edicts are being cast against the Jewish people - anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court telling us that we, the Jews standing here next to this wall ... in this city, in this country, have no right to live here and that by doing so, we are committing a war crime," he said.
We are in no position to issue edicts to co-workers, particularly if the big boss has no issue with them.
And even that number is artificially high, because many of those edicts served only to delay or weaken Mr Obama's rules.
Dr. Cheng, 39, has a knack for brushing aside conventions and edicts, like so many pie crumbs from a cutting board.
Clerics of many religions are still making those edicts, with dire consequences for the lives and psyches of millions of people.
Like many previous edicts of this sort, the ban on dog walking is not being taken very seriously, Ms. Bahrierad said.
"New edicts are being cast against the Jewish people - anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court telling us that we, the Jews standing here next to this wall ... in this city, in this country, have no right to live here and that by doing so, we are committing a war crime," he said, according to the news service.
But frankly it doesn't matter how well-meaning these top-down edicts are if the end result doesn't make the system safer.
By one estimate, the number of federal edicts has risen steadily for almost four decades, from about 400,000 in 1970 to 1.1m.
The grand mufti is in charge of issuing religious edicts as well as issuing a non-binding opinion on all capital sentences.
But as a team collaboration tool, it comes with a whole new set of edicts that have yet to be laid out.
Claude remembers Brancusi as mercurial, the kind of character whose genius was often expressed in arbitrary edicts that could never be explained.
But independent artists say authorities have been quick to veto content that does not conform to Islamic edicts in the conservative enclave.
Among the beheaded was one of her husband's relatives, an imam at a city mosque who had defied the Islamic State's edicts.
Vinke said that the climate passport would allow people to claim an entitlement to relocation rather than be subject to government edicts.
Other edicts included a ban on wearing jeans inside the ropes and also related to off-course attire appropriate for pro-am parties.
These edicts of government are the raw materials of our democracy, they are the bricks on which we construct our temple of justice….
Both edicts were challenged by broad coalitions of states, NGOs and private firms and subsequently stayed by judges on procedural and constitutional grounds.
After lower courts repeatedly froze Mr Trump's edicts for discriminating against Muslims, the travel ban found a friendlier audience among the nine justices.
Therefore, all Americans should simply accept and obey the edicts of government experts, under the auspice of a one-size-fits-all behemoth.
The document offers no new rules or marching orders, and from the outset Francis makes plain that no top-down edicts are coming.
In meetings, Trump suggested that issuing edicts or even recommendations about staying at home might cause undue panic and cause further market anxiety.
When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.
His furious, prodigious pace of edicts also bespeaks a man who feels like he's on a clock and his time is running out.
Basically, think of them as two middle-level employees of rival companies, each dealing with the bureaucracy and questionable edicts from their respective management.
Here's a closer look at some of the documents we collected, including tax collection forms, religious edicts and the will of a suicide bomber.
Whereas in America veterans' benefits are outlined in a single law, in China they are defined by a tangle of national and provincial edicts.
Incentives are superior to edicts — the former break down barriers for existing technology, and parcel out the costs into pieces the economy can digest.
Yet in the last week of his life, he also spent time online exploring what it meant to "sustain" or support his leaders' edicts.
After all, recent aluminium history is littered with restraining edicts from Beijing, none of which has prevented the runaway growth of its production sector.
Among the edicts in the document is the condition that no one with dual-citizen relations (including parents or children) can ever be president.
The council, with representatives from the country's main moderate and conservative Muslim groups, frequently issues such edicts but they usually have little immediate impact.
What do we do with the monuments of men whose values stand in utter contradiction to the Constitutional edicts that we hold so dear?
It has also opened a window, for much of the world, onto a country where modernity still clashes with ancient customs and religious edicts.
They had banners with edicts, almost like mad libs—I quit "X" years ago by vaping "X" flavor—and, as you might expect, ridiculous slogans.
However, with the rising influence of the urban middle class, dogmatic religious edicts of the sort used to marginalize the Bahais have come under pressure.
Whether one is an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment or an opponent to that thereof, we must unite in our objection to these edicts.
But there has already been a quick turnover in the generals assuming control, so it is not clear whether the edicts they announce will stick.
Women organized against H.T.S.'s discriminatory edicts, such as the imposition of strict dress codes and requiring widows to live with a close male relative.
We're a city once again at odds with the White House and its random and regressive edicts — with what it exalts and what it ignores.
But information gathered by internal government watchdogs and congressional testimony, however, suggests that several agency heads were caught by surprise by the White House edicts.
The trickiest bit of this puzzle is that, despite the dwindling existence of edicts like "business casual," getting dressed in 19883 is basically a lawless exercise.
Although these have no legal force under Indonesia's secular constitution, vigilantes have sometimes used the edicts to target revellers as well as religious and sexual minorities.
After Mr Putin's first term in office, which ended in 2004, the Duma ceased to be a democratic forum; it merely rubber-stamped the Kremlin's edicts.
Eventually, Winston is found out, and, during a series of excruciating exchanges with O'Brien, in which the Party's edicts are laid out, he is physically tortured.
Earlier the hosts lightened things up with banter about the CMA's edicts on avoiding controversial subjects, before launching into jokes about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
And get this: repealing "every single Obama executive order" would require Trump to dump four edicts that allowed federal workers to leave early on Christmas Eve.
Why have they only come out now, in response to the edicts of a foreign autocrat, when everything here has been so deeply fucked for so long?
When the President isn't single-handedly issuing edicts negatively impacting the citizenry, he's hiding information the public is entitled to obtain through the Freedom of Information Act.
Typically, these puzzling, sexist, and/or simply annoying edicts about what can and can't be worn in an academic setting affect K-12 students, not college coeds.
Some party committees have issued such orders before, but the frequency with which badge-wearing edicts are now being reported by official media suggests a broader push.
Each of them has an earpiece, through which they hear the edicts of their leader, who is referred to as the Bull, and whom we never see.
Endless internet searches led me to obsolete state and county edicts, laws from other states that were irrelevant, and misinformation of all stripes that yielded only confusion.
Lonely not because the residents are living apart, per the edicts to stay indoors to stop the spread of the coronavirus; living at home is normal here.
And while Indian officials and courts are issuing edicts to stop sources of pollution, they are reluctant to enforce bans on burning, driving, fireworks, and industrial activity.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says that it would be illegal for him to do so – but Catalan separatists have repeatedly defied such edicts in the past.
Sensing the mood—and probably eager not to harm the economy—the military junta which has ruled Thailand since 2014 has toned down some of its early edicts.
But even when Washington is unified, as it is now, Congress and the executive branch find it much easier to issue new edicts than to undo old ones.
The edicts of the Catholic Church meant women were supposed to grow out their hair as a display of femininity but keep it completely concealed when in public.
Even more than at Ajax, Barça absorbed his edicts, setting up at his instigation a junior academy, La Masia, like the one he had gone to at Ajax.
Despite edicts from above and earnest efforts from within police forces, uniting cops and communities in a deep and lasting way remains a theory rather than a practice.
He welcomed the authority, swelling into a supercilious manager (and, to Hughes, a bullying admirer) who handed down edicts from Godmother while enforcing a few of his own.
Solo shooting someone dead before they've made any attempt on his life would be akin to Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman violating their moral edicts of never killing.
That includes $2 million on Sunday, even as the nation was facing a financial standstill from the mass closures of businesses and "stay home" edicts from health officials.
President Trump has declared that his forthcoming order will use the cutting or denial of federal research funds as a cudgel to force compliance with free speech edicts.
Dubai's ruling al-Maktoum family has long pledged reforms aimed at bringing rule of law to a business realm often subject to the self-interested edicts of officials.
He has called for massive reform of religious institutions, including creating a clearinghouse that will vet all clergy's religious edicts, and famously spearheaded plans to allow women to drive.
The United States has already enacted sanctions limiting Iranian participation in the global banking system and new edicts against the country's petroleum sector go into effect on Nov. 4.
They retain control of the justice system but leave most other matters of governance to him, so long as his edicts do not contradict their interpretation of Islamic law.
It is likely that the inverse is true as well; the more a country substitutes administrative edicts for democratically promulgated laws, the greater the drag on the economic growth.
On the Sunday before the election, she travelled to Tornillo, Texas, for a demonstration against the Trump immigration edicts that had separated thousands of migrant children from their families.
He advocates involving non-governmental actors (including companies like his but also civil society) in decision-making, even if this "multistakeholder" process is slower than top-down government edicts.
More broadly, this administration believes that a competitive, affordable insurance market is going to come about by allowing insurers to respond to consumers -- not by imposing edicts from Washington.
Beyond booze, the state-backed council of clerics, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), has in recent years passed edicts condemning everything from homosexual partnerships to the wearing of Santa hats.
It might reduce individuals to a position of defencelessness before the mighty state, either by forcing them to obey the state's edicts or making them dependent on the state's largesse.
Leaders of communities in the US and other countries where FGM is illegal, however, issued letters advising members to follow area laws—not religious edicts—after Nagarwala's arrest last month.
The eco-mosque initiative is not the first time MUI has taken the lead on the environment - it has also issued edicts, or fatwas, on forest fires and sustainable mining.
They all agree to live somewhat off the grid, according to Bean's edicts: no electronics, alcohol or artificial anything, modern vices Bean believes may have contributed to their children's difficulties.
Another tradition of the past is making a comeback thanks to social-distancing edicts: drive-in movie theaters, like the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive-In in Austin, Texas, above.
The skunk, the chicken, the king's edicts seem less formidable than absurd, and the recurrent introduced voices of both Twain and Stead may please postmodern-minded adults more than children.
They knew this because they had escaped from despotic regimes in Europe, where corrupt kings and monarchs issued edicts that specifically prohibited citizens from bearing arms and challenging their tyranny.
But it now seems clear that evangelical Christians, who hold up biblical edicts on lying, cheating and adultery, don't care about the word of God when it comes to Trump.
Unlike Congress, which has control over the federal budget, and the president, who is commander in chief of the military, the Supreme Court has no way to actually enforce its edicts.
Voluntary measures and education usually work better than edicts that may lead people to lie about their symptoms and travel history, and encourage countries to conceal outbreaks, public health experts say.
It is crucial to our national security that policymakers not interfere in the emerging market for cyber insurance, either through government edicts or by creating programs that could displace private options.
After a flurry of new government edicts, Huawei, the world's second-largest cellphone maker after it edged out Apple last year, will soon be entirely cut off from American-made technology.
The Obama administration's guidance drew wide-ranging criticism, including from college administrators, as arbitrary edicts that pressured colleges to conduct quasi-legal processes with a presumed outcome in favor of victims.
That probably means some mix of DPA edicts, direct subsidies for production, and guarantees that the government will purchase any "excess" supplies if the crisis ends up ending sooner than expected.
His adherence to the DNC's edicts is itself an act of defiance by "someone that doesn't have to play by those rules," said Colin Strother, a Democratic campaign consultant in Texas.
"We have the cure to the diseases that ISIS and other groups are spreading," said Dr. Ibrahim Negm of Dar al-Ifta, a state-funded body that issues fatwas, or religious edicts.
The second is that he is America's most portentous self-help guru: "The world will tell you that you need more government, more protection, more rules, and more edicts," he solemnly intoned.
It seems likely, though, that widespread "social distancing" that has led to school and event cancellations and work-from-home edicts will devastate demand for services like restaurants, taxis, flights, hotels, etc.
In response, a scholar from Dar al-Ifta, the authority responsible for issuing religious edicts, or fatwas, told a satellite television show that anyone who did not vote would be a traitor.
Not a disciplined, unified response to a crisis from this White House; instead, an unhinged president issuing feeble edicts from his bed, many of which could cause a sputtering economy to spiral.
Carrying out such edicts is often a slow process; for example, efforts to ensure that online profiles are linked to the user's real name have been continuing for more than a decade.
" It contains 30 numbered edicts, including this: "We affirm that cost/benefit analysis (Luke 14:28) is a proper and critically important aspect of godly dominion over the Earth (Proverbs 183:4).
So if I'm teaching you table manners, it means I'm also teaching you what art is, I'm teaching you what dance is, I'm teaching you what the edicts are of a culture.
It did so because it forgot or never knew what might be called a "common man populism," one that does not bypass constitutional order with myriads of edicts and privileges for its supporters.
Any willingness by Congress to cede its constitutionally entrusted lawmaking power and subject the American people to the edicts of an unelected, unaccountable board that is immune from judicial oversight is downright appalling.
These edicts—and the fact that a human being had to be able to comfortably sleep in it—meant that it would be impossible to perfectly recreate, in three dimensions, Van Gogh's painting.
While believers accept these prohibitions as divine edicts to prove devotion, some scholars speculate that they developed as health measures to prevent spoilage of meat, which is accelerated through oxidation and bacterial growth.
The S.E.C., which oversees publicly traded companies and the stock exchanges, is an independent agency with three Republican commissioners and two Democrats and is not required to honor edicts from the White House.
In "Anthem," Ms. Djordevich pushes back against those edicts by embracing "theatricality, virtuosity and sass" through a mix of various dance styles and repetitive movements that grow in complexity before dissolving in chaos.
With a few flicks of his executive pen, Trump overruled the edicts of President Obama and cleared the way for the eventual construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline and the Dakota access pipeline.
Strong stuff, but the strength is clearly wielded against the satisfactions of the bourgeoisie and the edicts of the Catholic establishment, whereas Lanthimos, as a director, is not in the business of picking fights.
For instance, proponents say that work requirements fulfill the edicts of Medicaid because gainful employment is key to healthy living — higher earnings have been tied to longer life spans, and unemployment to shorter ones.
The key, ultimately, is that Springsteen's music triggers an awakening, one that emboldens Javed to defy his father's edicts, brave speaking to a girl he likes (Nell Williams) and contemplate who he truly is.
Inspired by his edicts to enslave and slaughter Yazidis, whom IS regard as infidels, his followers shot, beheaded and kidnapped thousands in a rampage which the United Nations called a genocidal campaign against them.
France is losing the core of its historic provincial towns — dense hubs of urbanity deep in the countryside where judges judged, Balzac set his novels, prefects issued edicts and citizens shopped for 210.4 cheeses.
Directly behind Donald Trump in the Oval Office as he inks his bundle of biases into edicts is the newly installed portrait of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, a shock-haired, vainglorious slave driver.
"Edicts came down, and it was up to us to try to implement them," said Ms. Flynn, who has left the Justice Department for Lambda Legal, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal aid organization.
In the Chinese statement, the NBA apologized for the "hurt feelings" caused by Morey's tweet, borrowing a phrase commonly used by the Chinese government to rebuke challenges to Beijing's edicts, according to The Associated Press.
In a video identifying him as the head of the religious edicts department in the southern province, Hijri asked what the traffic department would do it if it discovered a man with only half a brain.
But old-fashioned edicts were overturned as Sweden modernized, and by the early 20th century the country's rulers accepted the need for a national costume that could be donned by all Swedes, wherever they were from.
Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has relied on institutions like the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its feared Basij domestic militia, and assorted informal pressure groups to enforce the edicts of the country's clerical elite.
Indonesia will this year review the concentrates export ban as part of a revision of the 2009 mining law that led to the export edicts and other regulations, said Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sudirman Said.
But as the virus' spread began to make national news, the Florida governor began to issue orders about the size of gatherings in the Sunshine State and handed down other edicts directed at restaurants and bars.
Even though Mao from Hunan and Deng Xiaoping from Sichuan had famously thick accents, edicts used to assert that actors should portray the Communist greats speaking putonghua (imagine Lyndon Johnson with the accent of an NPR presenter).
But Ghosn never came close to achieving his vision of an all-electric world, and his edicts for 10% U.S. market share led Nissan to engage in unprofitable discounting and corner-cutting that led to quality problems.
The move, which is expected to precipitate a collapse in all the other regional edicts, was welcomed by the likes of Amnesty International but condemned by far right figures including the National Front Leader Marine Le Pen.
"Because of the fires, because of the extreme drought, because of the anti-environmental edicts coming from this president, there's a huge ground swell of support," Mr. de León said of his proposal, designated Senate Bill 100.
He said he had read hundreds of books on US history, business leadership, and politics, and he was clearly disillusioned by the new combative stance of the US government and the whiplash induced by Trump's various edicts.
The sanctuary movement is exposing the rift between rural and urban America as much as the one between the Republican and Democratic parties, as small, conservative counties push back against statewide edicts passed by big-city politicians.
Since then, the junta has issued edicts aimed at censoring the media and preventing public gatherings of more than five people, among others, in an attempt to impose order in the politically divided country following years of unrest.
Excerpts from Voice of Jihad, al-Qaeda's propaganda magazine (with the group's damning edicts against its enemies voiced incongruously in Tom Hollander's clipped British tones) ratchet up the on-screen tension between the terrorists and the security forces.
The strict edicts — called the Kensington System Rules and administered by Victoria's German governess Baroness Louise Lehzen and her mother, the then-Duchess of Kent — are on display at a new exhibition at Victoria's childhood home, Kensington Palace.
Officials in Illinois, California and Ohio issued edicts on Sunday directing restaurants and bars to close or only serve take-out or delivery in an effort to limit the number of people congregating and potentially transmitting the virus.
"Because of the fires, because of the extreme drought, because of the anti-environmental edicts coming from this president, there's a huge ground swell of support," Mr. de León has said about the legislation, designated Senate Bill 100.
It reminded me of the big, bold edicts that Jenny Holzer would have superimposed on a building or a billboard, or of the billboards that you pass in the South: "JESUS IS COMING SOON" or something else apocalyptic.
North Korea is a one-party, totalitarian political system, and most political gatherings are carefully choreographed and only serve to rubber-stamp edicts from the all-powerful leader, but there's a remote possibility that this one could be different.
Wahhabi clergy offer legitimacy and public support to a king who styles himself "custodian of the two holy mosques", and leave all matters of governance and foreign policy to him so long as his edicts do not contradict Muslim law.
Ibadan-based economist, Lekan Adigun said the wide acceptance of MMM in Nigeria in spite of numerous failures of similar schemes is not in line with industry edicts; it preys on the economic recession and citizens' desire for quick wealth.
At a gathering on November 16, held in conjunction with the exhibition opening, discussion dealt with the aftermath of the 2016 election and the looming administration of President-Elect Donald Trump, whose edicts threaten women's rights—as well as human rights.
That is generating excitement in the kingdom, while upending a superstition among many Saudis - and long-backed by religious edicts - that the area is haunted by jinn, the malevolent spirits of the Koran and Arabian mythology, and must be avoided.
Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.
The Yazidi religious leadership issued official edicts to the effect that women who were raped were to be accepted back into the community as Yazidis, and to not be stigmatized for violence against them for which they were not responsible.
Perhaps in response, Mr. Joko has chosen as his vice-presidential running mate a Muslim cleric, Ma'ruf Amin, who heads a national religious council that has declared fatwas against a minority sect and Muslims wearing Santa costumes, among other edicts.
Judge Pregerson, who grew up in diverse East Los Angeles, wielded formidable influence not only in interpreting the law but also by using his bully pulpit on the bench and functioning, through edicts and consent decrees, as a social engineer.
As a result of their misgivings, lawmakers have repeatedly tied the government's hands, going so far as to pre-write a letter to the European Union for the prime minister because they did not trust him to follow the chamber's edicts.
The flurry of administration edicts flowing from the Trump White House puts some top Republicans in the awkward position of welcoming aggressive executive muscle flexing from a president of their own party after castigating Mr. Obama for using the same approach.
Several women expressed fears that a peace deal could bring the Taliban back into the government, leaving women and girls vulnerable to a new wave of the sort of edicts that constrained their lives until the group's overthrow in 2001.
The changes would rip up some of the edicts introduced under the Obama administration, reduce the powers of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and dilute, but not overturn, the Volcker rule, which stops big banks from making certain kinds of risky speculative bets.
Six former Nxivm members have taken the stand, providing a window into how the group indoctrinated people, undermined their moral beliefs and convinced them to blindly follow Mr. Raniere's edicts, even when that meant breaking the law or tolerating unwelcome sexual contact.
Between 1970 and 19733 the number of prescriptive words like "shall" or "must" in the code of federal regulations grew from 403,000 to nearly 963,22016, or about 247,219 edicts a year, according to data compiled by the Mercatus Centre, a libertarian-leaning think-tank.
In a decree, King Salman ordered the establishment of an authority to scrutinize uses of the "hadith" - accounts of the sayings, actions or habits of the Prophet that are used by preachers and jurists to support teachings and edicts on all aspects of life.
Or really, that we were all there, together, as one chorus — and at times, it felt, one soul — throwing our hands in the air to proclaim to the heavens that most sacred of edicts: If you change your mind, I'm the first in line.
The former president acknowledged that the two countries have the right to jostle over economic and national security issues, but warned that a "modern Cold War" between Washington and Beijing "is not inconceivable" if leaders continue to escalate their criticisms and issue edicts on policies.
In 2514, the British East India Company gave the botanist Robert Fortune a mission: smuggle live tea bushes out of China against the emperor's strict edicts and plant them in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, to propagate a new tea industry under British control.
But perhaps the most important aspect of the proslavery theology that far outlasted the high tide of antebellum slaveholding was its fusion of religion with a form of nationalism, a vision of an American Christian nation with hierarchies rooted in the edicts of the Bible.
The modern EPA is a massive bureaucratic interest group out of control, effectively unconstrained by law or the constitution, a repository of environmental fanaticism utterly uninterested in the well-being of ordinary people or, for that matter, in the actual environmental effects of its edicts.
Those inclined to believe in free will and the free market argue that the Lost City of White Male Privilege was responsible for its own demise, that the constant stream of contradictory religious and secular edicts from on high confused the highly impressionable white male.
The asylum rule was one of a series of anti-immigration edicts issued by the Trump administration recently as it seeks to stem the flow of migrants arriving at the border with Mexico after fleeing violence and poverty in countries including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
To Gutiérrez, this was borderline delusional; it ignored both the House's longstanding resentment of being seen as subordinate to the Senate and the weak position of Republican leaders, whose edicts about demographic imperatives carried only so much weight with members in safe districts with few Hispanic voters.
The exhibit hinges on the edicts of the 10-point program fostered by the Black Panther Party that made demands for the black community, including freedom and power, the need for education, affordable housing, land reparations, and the end of police brutality and the murder of black people.
In his anti-British campaigns throughout India, Mr. Gandhi has been a determined opponent of violence in any form, calling rather for passive resistance to the laws and edicts of the British Raj, absolute refusal of cooperation with any Government measures, but a complete absence of armed resistance.
This difference played into a second Democratic liability, according to Lupia: Many liberal elites, who see right-leaning voters as blindly following the edicts of an unbending dogma on many issues, have little to no awareness of their own blind allegiance to an unbending dogma on many issues.
Mr. Trump's supporters see his edicts and outbursts as perfectly consistent with his campaign promise to upend the establishment, reassert America's primacy and put all on notice not to trifle with him — a kind of chaos theory of foreign-policy management to leave everyone guessing, all the time.
In Maryland, Judge Theodore Chuang emphasised the ban's First Amendment troubles—its targeting of Muslims—while Judge Watson focused on the statutory complaint, citing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' statement in June that solid evidence is necessary before presidents may issue sweeping edicts under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
By the sixties, its edicts, as set out by early practitioners like Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Little Richard, were decreed in full: rock and roll should be scrappy and instinctive, a wild and unstable expression that appears free of mediation or meddling, even (especially) when it's not.
By refuting rigid orthodoxy — and some inchoate standard of authenticity — these chefs remind us that Japanese cuisine is not some repository of edicts past but a lived and living tradition, as well as a pastiche, one that has borrowed unapologetically from other cultures throughout history, despite the country's long seclusion.
With almost all of us spending a lot of time at home because of the coronavirus pandemic and some under edicts to shelter in place and avoid going out at all, those of us who are used to regular exercise naturally have pressing questions and concerns about how best to stay in shape.
Courtesy Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint Étienne Métropole After the first salon, Satie broke with Péladan and, in the schismatic fashion of the day, established a private cult, the Metropolitan Church of the Art of Jésus Conducteur, from whose pulpit he issued edicts and anathemas in an apparent parody of Péladan's style.
Still, the university holds enormous sway over Sunni theology, issuing religious edicts and convening conferences like the peace gathering Pope Francis is scheduled to address on Friday The Pope will have a delicate task in that address: Christians will expect him to clearly condemn Islamic extremism; Muslims will expect him to avoid indicting Islam itself.
On the ground, both the edicts of the Ambazonian government-in-exile and the wishes of ADF commanders appear subordinate to the long and heated deliberations of civilian elders in their village assemblies, a traditional form of democracy that, while admirable, may not be the most efficient political means of organizing an existential war.
Trump's oil obsession isn't entirely his fault: His military advisers, already spinning from having indulged his ill-informed edicts on Korean military exercises, Iranian strike plans, the Space Force, transgender service members, deployments to the Mexico border, and a military parade, now contended with a disastrous Syria withdrawal that endangered U.S. troops and fostered criminal atrocities by invading forces.
While his early public pronouncements tended to chime with the feelings of his typically left-leaning fan base—think of his tirades against the Queen and Margaret Thatcher—the new-look Pope of Mope saves his edicts for Brexit ("magnificent"), Nigel Farage ("I like him a great deal") and terrorism (politicians are afraid to call out Islam).
Most surprising of all, civil servants and government bureaucrats—as well as the leaders of institutions inside and outside the government—are being forced to confront how far they are willing to go in resisting, overtly or covertly, the raging torrent of fiats and edicts flowing in and out of the White House on a daily basis.
The failure of his efforts to deprive millions of Americans of health care coverage, the continuing investigation of his administration by the F.B.I., court challenges to his immigration and environmental edicts, and a new willingness by self-interested allies to desert him all suggest he is not immune to the forces that have felled bad presidents before him.
"If you imagine just walking on the sidewalk and somebody on a scooter at 15 miles an hour hits you, it can be fatal," Beverly Hills councilmember Lili Bosse said last month after the California city  voted to ban the devices for six months , following  similar edicts and warnings  in places like West Hollywood, Seattle, Saint Paul, Nashville, Boston and Miami.
"If you imagine just walking on the sidewalk and somebody on a scooter at 15 miles an hour hits you, it can be fatal," Beverly Hills councilmember Lili Bosse said Tuesday night after the California city voted to ban the devices for six months , following similar edicts and warnings in places like West Hollywood, Seattle, Saint Paul, Nashville, Boston and Miami.
Although the Pope is unlikely to grant Sanders an audience during the Vermont senator's whirlwind two-day trip to the Holy See, Sanders generously layered his address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences with several of the Argentine pontiff's edicts, particularly on the worship of money over morals, while also addressing his own remonstrations in the US of Wall Street greed.
Rabbits may have been domesticated around 600, he wrote, saying that he found nothing in Dr. Larson's paper to exclude the possibility that, papal edicts aside, "French monks or farmers in Southern France, because they loved rabbit meat, made a specific effort during a period of 50-100 years to establish tame rabbits that became the founding population for the domestic rabbit."
The athletes have grown increasingly frustrated with Bach's insistence that they continue to push "full steam ahead" as though the Games will happen in July when doing so might put their health and the health of others in jeopardy, in addition to defying edicts of local governments that are closing all but essential businesses and ordering citizens to stay inside as much as possible.
IN ONE OF Russian literature's most memorable passages, Pimen, an elderly chronicler in "Boris Godunov", passes the task of recording history to a young monk: Write down, avoiding crafty sophistries,All things that you shall witness in this life:Both war and peace, the edicts of our Tsars,The holy miracles of saintly men,All prophecies and blessed revelations… Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
Trump's relatively benign comments before being elected did nothing to prepare Minter for the ban on openly transgender people in the military and for his administration's edicts, efforts or declared intentions to eliminate protections for transgender people in the Affordable Care Act, allow health care workers to cite religious beliefs in refusing to treat gay or transgender people, let federally funded housing shelters deny access to transgender people, make it easier for adoption agencies to turn away same-sex couples and more.
We meet people who import hair and people who export hair; people who collect hair from the side of the road; people who chop off their hair and post videos of it on hair-selling websites; religious leaders who issue edicts about appropriate wig hair; curators of human-hair collections in museums; workers in Chinese hairpiece factories; hair enthusiasts from the 19th century; and people who, missing all or some of their hair, yearn for that elusive thing, the perfect replacement.

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