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Brazilian President Michel Temer decreed three days of national mourning.
The country's government has decreed it must approve such inspections.
Firms had to have a physical presence, the government decreed.
In the past, doctors had decreed the panels I'd take.
"Too dark," the wife decreed the minute she walked in.
Uber does not have to stop self-driving testing, Alsup decreed.
In July the government decreed tough new standards for subway systems.
Coach Gregg Popovich decreed a night of rest for the forward.
They then broke relations with Qatar and decreed a trade boycott.
Do I think the pilot should remain cancelled, as Ford has decreed?
Hungary is leading the opposition to Germany's unilaterally decreed refugee/migrant policies.
Yet Mr Putin has decreed that the deficit should not exceed 33%.
Only hops, water and barley should go into beer, decreed the dukes.
The church's sanctuary, they decreed, must be taller than any built before.
But Trump had decreed both should be blocked, without giving any explanation.
But Mr. Sulzberger decreed that The Times would endorse Mr. Moynihan instead.
Kelly, whose handling of the Porter case was heavily criticized, decreed on Feb.
Others decreed that a wholesale retreat was coming, with redemptions across the board.
In 1940 the Soviet authorities decreed that Kazakh should be written in Cyrillic.
Assembly met and decreed that genocide was in fact a crime under international
Instead, he decreed big increases in the minimum wage and in social programmes.
"But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage," Weber wrote.
In effect, the president had decreed a de facto death penalty without trial.
It simply printed paper notes, decreed that people must accept them and killed counterfeiters.
Sternly he decreed that there was room for only one artist in their relationship.
This year alone, he said, the government has decreed more than a dozen raises.
By the end of this year, Mr Sharif has decreed, it will be 10,000.
In 2014, the law minister decreed that officials should no longer register Rohingya marriages.
The latest personnel changes were decreed by King Salman and published in state media.
This year alone, he said, the government has decreed more than a dozen raises.
Europe has decreed that, by 2020, all new buildings must use almost no energy.
Instead, the panel decreed that all college athlete compensation must be tethered to educational expenses.
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis decreed three days of mourning to begin on Monday.
But the White House has decreed that such firsthand witnesses as Mick Mulvaney not cooperate.
Soon afterward, he decreed that the government itself could seize farms without paying the landowners.
The Ministry of Health had decreed that the stadium must be disinfected twice a day.
None of the amendments Mr. Erdogan decreed were subject to public debate before becoming law.
Unlike later social Darwinists, they interpreted evolution to mean that progress was decreed by nature.
But when the Supreme Court, in 20083, decreed an end to school segregation, Virginia resisted.
George decided that the best way to combat the perception of the family was to limit the number of royals, and so decreed that only the first born of the heir to the throne would be a "royal highness" -- unless the reigning monarch decreed otherwise.
Trick question: Technically, America doesn't have a national dish—as decreed by the US government, anyway.
Last year the government decreed that China would lead globally in artificial intelligence (AI) by 285.
This affirmed a 1943 Tax Court ruling that had also decreed health benefits to be nontaxable.
Guilt is guilt, never to be questioned if it has been decreed so by the courts.
Instead, decreed the courts, political prisoners must choose from a short list of court-approved lawyers.
"We believe that everything that happens is ultimately decreed by God, by heaven," Mr. Spitalny said.
The country's ruler has decreed that women don't need their guardian's approval to get their licenses.
Mechanically wading into treatment as into a limitless ocean, I submitted to what the doctors decreed.
A rabbi has decreed that until Menashe remarries, Rieven must live with an aunt and uncle.
"Jobs would write them down — and then cross off the ones he decreed dumb," Isaacson continued.
He decreed the use of a universal written script, which let him control the political conversation.
The state of emergency can only be just, by this patriotic illogic: The République decreed it.
King Salman decreed in September 2017 that women were to be allowed to gain driver's licenses.
The Moscow Times had decreed that the host was "doomed to fail" in its own tournament.
But in Mexico, only one has been decreed as the official national sport of the country: charrería.
This month, the industrial Hebei province decreed that all new residential complexes must have car-charging facilities.
In fact, well before Francis spoke, French bishops had decreed a change similar to one he recommended.
Or must it be on a Sunday, the historic day of Jesus' resurrection, as other Christians decreed?
"I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created," he decreed, emphasizing a divine patrimony.
Fate had decreed that I suffer, like the Catholic martyrs whose stories I'd devoured as a child.
Police and demonstrators have clashed since Monday following sharp fuel price hikes decreed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Biya decreed that Monday would be a national day of mourning with flags flown at half-mast.
That flows naturally from the fact that the president has decreed the response is a great success.
The assembly has decreed that only parties that took part in the previous election will be eligible.
Traditionally, royal strategists have decreed that royals should cultivate as much distance as possible from the public.
In November, the government decreed that overseas transfers of $5 million or more required vetting by regulators.
Back in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decreed that the 10 days following October 4 simply wouldn't exist.
Spain decreed in 2014 that utilities had to offer dynamic pricing contracts as the default regulated offer.
But he noted that it has been decreed an act of free speech and wouldn't talk about Trump.
Cairo increased fines for illegal rice cultivation last year and decreed that just 724,000 feddans could be planted.
What cruelties would I accept, or even defend, if the gods literally decreed it necessary for human survival?
The outraged Pope Pius XII decreed that all bishops consecrating new bishops under its aegis would be excommunicated.
The law limits citizenship for those, like the Rohingya, who are not members of officially decreed ethnic groups.
They are also driven by fashion, which has decreed that some grains are out and others are in.
By the end of his first year he had decreed that he was not bound by judicial restraints.
When parliament made clear that it would not support the interloper, Mr Sirisena abruptly decreed the chamber disbanded.
IT BEGAN three months ago with a protest against cuts in pensions decreed by Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president.
This is a stupid interview question because nowhere it is written or decreed that human beings have weaknesses.
Last year a court decreed that the air in London is in breach of the air quality directive.
The chances are that relatively few Bangladeshis will be decreed to be in Assam and due for deportation.
Yet on June 17th the acting governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Francisco Dornelles, decreed a "public calamity".
Thus, it was decreed that Thanksgiving should be followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.
A 1925 rule decreed that tennis balls must bounce 53 to 58 inches when dropped from 100 inches.
Priebus said the RNC has always openly decreed that the party's presidential nomination requires a majority of delegates.
Her government has also decreed that Rohingya were not allowed to work or register for local cellphone service.
In the 1500s, Queen Elizabeth I decreed that only members of the royal family could wear the color.
His death, following a stroke, was confirmed by the Spanish government, which decreed an official day of mourning.
And Pope Francis decreed that the cardinal could no longer work or minister as a priest in public.
As soon as Queen Elizabeth succeeded her father, she decreed that Windsor would become her principal weekend retreat.
Chairman Mao once decreed that "enemies of the people" do not actually belong to the category of people.
That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
In December, Sanchez already decreed a 22 percent rise in the minimum wage, the biggest in four decades.
Last month Bashar al-Assad, Syria's dictator, decreed a pay rise of 113,000 pounds ($24) for civil servants.
The administration decreed this transparency mandate as an unprecedented and revolutionary change to the American health care system.
In fact, the nation's highest constitutional tribunal decreed on Friday, it can now be a defense against prosecution.
The troops discussed the casualties among their fellow servicemen, which President Vladimir V. Putin later decreed were secret.
In 1976, Congress decreed that American firms could operate on the island tax-free, to encourage investment there.
In the late 1970s Deng Xiaoping decreed that family ties should no longer be an impediment to university entry.
Thus decreed Julius Caesar in 229 B.C.: that every four years an extra day would be added to February.
This had decreed that the central government would be responsible only for Jammu & Kashmir's defence, foreign affairs and communications.
South America's largest city and economic hub Sao Paulo decreed a state of emergency, as did Rio de Janeiro.
The Bolsheviks nationalised church land and property, abolished traditional rituals, and decreed that all citizens must have identical funerals.
So when the leftist government in April decreed Friday school closings to save electricity, it was the last straw.
In yet another sudden decision, Mr Modi's government in May decreed what amounted to a ban on livestock markets.
Then the king abruptly decreed that women would be allowed to drive next year, ending a decades-long ban.
In 2006 Néstor Kirchner, Ms Fernández's husband and predecessor, decreed that the armed forces could only confront "external aggressions".
This accelerated in March when the puppet supreme court decreed, in effect, the abolition of the opposition-controlled legislature.
It took nearly a hundred years, but in 1713, the Spanish Crown officially decreed the cities occupants as free.
The current mess is the result of the workings of democracy, which decreed opening the gates to the barbarians.
It decreed that non-corporation political action committees (PACs) making only independent expenditures could accept unlimited contributions from individuals.
Thus Julius Caesar decreed in 229 B.C. that every four years an extra day would be added to February.
"The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple," he decreed in his first inaugural address.
But where the victorious Ottomans allowed Jews and Christians to worship openly, the Catholic monarchs decreed conversion or death.
He once decreed that no one should eat meat in the office or purchase it on company expense accounts.
Plastics are strictly forbidden, as decreed by the International Maritime Organization's MARPOL convention on the prevention on marine pollution.
Three years later, Cuba's Law 81 of the Environment was decreed to provide a framework for sustainable socioeconomic development.
Clerical sex abuse: Pope Francis today decreed universal procedures for reporting and investigating cases in the Roman Catholic Church.
The Syrian government has decreed that citizens must produce documents to reclaim their homes, assuming they are still standing.
In December, the Constituent Assembly decreed that political parties that wanted to run must have participated in previous elections.
With the Hawks out of the playoffs, McLaughlin decreed that his five factory-fresh Americans would debut against Boston.
He also wants it decreed ... the song belongs to him alone -- and not to any entity affiliated with 6ix9ine.
In 2013, a government study decreed Skegness, a resort on the North Sea coast, the most deprived in England.
The government decreed this year that the system should record such vaguely defined sins as "assembling to disrupt social order".
Notably, he decreed that, after his death, his dance company would close, following a two-year world tour (2010-11).
But the doctrine of "rational expectations" decreed that firms and consumers would, to the greatest extent possible, anticipate policymakers' actions.
In a further bid to save energy, Maduro also decreed Monday a holiday, on top of a Tuesday national anniversary.
In April 1868 a famous "Charter Oath" decreed that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world" to strengthen imperial rule.
The "Charter Oath" of April 1868 that formally ended feudal rule decreed that "knowledge shall be sought throughout the world".
The M5S, he decreed, should only enter government with an absolute majority that would enable it to change the system.
So the NDS decreed that America would henceforth focus on "long-term, strategic competition between nations"—namely, China and Russia.
As long ago as 1998 the government recognised those feminine job titles, and decreed that they be taught in schools.
Magufuli had canceled the normal Independence Day celebrations because of their expense, and instead decreed a national clean-up day.
Under the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923, the two countries decreed a swap of religious minorities, with limited exceptions.
The act likewise decreed that immigrants take a literacy test to determine if they represented a "desirable" or "undesirable" population.
As part of the move, it decreed that visitors need not wear all-covering black robes but should dress modestly.
The arrests came hours after King Salman decreed the creation of an anti-corruption committee led by the Crown Prince.
The purported modernization decreed by the prince has been accompanied by a broad campaign of arrests, trials, convictions and executions.
The community's leader, Bishop Peters, has decreed that if the rapists ask to be forgiven, the women must forgive them.
Even that arrangement annoyed park officials enough that in 1953 they decreed that only permanent park employees could be residents.
In mid-February, Mr. Putin decreed that Russia would recognize the passports issued by two separatist governments in eastern Ukraine.
"I am not interested in any more books about the civil rights movement in East Jesus anyway," the Legend decreed.
And in my opinion, at this stage, the quarantines decreed by the Chinese government will not help end the crisis.
No doubt some doughty psycho-biographer has decreed that the great detective was bipolar, or autistic, or had Asperger's syndrome.
Ayatollah Khamenei himself decreed that the price increase was necessary and appropriate, essentially squelching any further discussion among his subordinates.
The bank said in a separate statement it would rapidly and resolutely enforce implementation of the measures initiated and decreed.
They will be counted along with the rest of us in the grand decennial enumeration that the Constitution's framers decreed.
They will be counted along with the rest of us in the grand decennial enumeration that the Constitution's framers decreed.
However, the presence of a firewall would violate the precious principles of relativity, which decreed the existence of black holes.
In 2017 King Salman decreed that women could seek government services, such as education and health care, without a man's consent.
These regulations date back to the 240s, when the FCC decreed that companies could only own three TV stations at once.
A law passed in 1981 bans the sale of any book at anything other than the price decreed by its publisher.
It's Valentine's Day weekend, which means it's decreed by the powers that be that a romantic comedy must open in theaters.
Though Congress has decreed that federal funds cannot be used to destroy embryos, investigators can still use state or private funds.
Lycurgus, the founder of the Spartan regime, is said to have decreed that only iron bars would be accepted as currency.
Earlier this year the governor of the province, Irwandi Yusuf, decreed that corporal sentences be carried out within the city's prison.
The Nazi government has decreed that France must pay 20,000,000 marks daily for the upkeep of the German army of occupation.
The US$1bn - the maximum that parliament decreed the sovereign could borrow - will help make up for shortfalls in its budget.
In Trump's September presidential proclamation outlining the third ban, he decreed that some of its aspects wouldn't take effect until October.
The Queen gets a state funeral, an extremely rare honor only given to a dead monarch or when decreed by Parliament.
At the time, the governor of the province, Irwandi Yusuf, decreed that corporal sentences be carried out within the city's prison.
It was 40-27 then, and it was over because Williamson, the Blue Devils' bulldozing ballet dancer, had decreed it was.
President Lenín Moreno has decreed a state of emergency, closing Ecuador's borders to all foreign travelers and declaring a nighttime curfew.
It's also decreed that another portion not be sold at all, leading farmers to let food simply rot in the ground.
Silhouetted against the sky were lovely old trees, including a majestic sycamore the clients had decreed untouchable during the renovation process.
We decreed that other contenders — Harris for an instant, Warren and Buttigieg for longer, even Bernie Sanders of late — had momentum.
In that 2016 decision, the Pentagon decreed transgender soldiers could come out, and that officials would eventually allow transgender applicants to enlist.
The probe was "procedurally unfair" and was "tainted with apparent bias", the ruling decreed, before awarding costs to the former first minister.
Under its beefed-up "golden power", Rome decreed that it could block 5G deals involving non-European firms on national interest grounds.
Long ago, many in the world decreed that the end of the calendar year should be a time to give people gifts.
Last week, the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party decreed that North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons.
Defense Minister Raul Jungmann announced Thursday that Temer had revoked the decision to deploy the army, 17 hours after it was decreed.
Soon after, he decreed a cash bonus worth two-month's salary to all government employees — at an estimated cost of $32 billion.
P.S.G.'s chairman, Nasser al-Khelaifi, decreed that the celebrity approach was not working and that a complete about-face was required.
The arrests were ordered by an anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, that the king had decreed just hours earlier.
Section 27 of this law decreed that only American ships could carry goods and passengers from one United States port to another.
However, the family has since decreed that any player who takes a knee during the anthem will not play in that game.
Two years later, he decreed that he would have been a Champions League coach if only he had a more glamorous surname.
When Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller, he decreed that the Justice Department's regulations for special counsels would apply to the Russia investigation.
"The prevalence of white supremacy decreed that women should approach the appearance of northern European whiteness or risk social exile," she says.
In fact, for a number of years now, as his fans and friends have noticed, it has decreed avoiding shirts whenever possible.
When runaway land speculation seized the Western states, Jackson decreed that land transactions could only be conducted using pure gold or silver.
According to History, the Royal Marriages Act of 1772 decreed that all royal marriages needed to be approved by the reigning monarch.
Later in the day he also formally decreed authorized that mass could now be said in nahuatl, Mexico's most-used indigenous language.
"The state of calamity decreed by the state government in no way delays the deliveries of Olympic commitments made in Rio," Paes tweeted.
The mother of all Turkish vocabulary purges was the language revolution of the 1930s decreed by the founder of the republic, Kemal Ataturk.
A wave of royal appointments, decreed the same day as the restoration of perks, further shifts the balance in the young prince's favour.
Soviet censors decreed that the novel's unflinching comparisons between the barbarism of Nazi and Stalinist regimes would make it unpublishable for 250 years.
To reduce the risk that aid is diverted, the government has decreed that only the army and Mexican Red Cross may distribute it.
The Higher Islamic Council, the country's most important religious body, decreed that the harga was haram, contrary to religious law, and a sin.
In an August statement, Al-Azhar called for harsh penalties against sexual harassers and decreed that a woman's clothing should never justify harassment.
Andrew M. Cuomo had decreed that the Trade Center join landmarks around the world in lighting up in the black, yellow and red.
FIFA, soccer's world governing body, has decreed that a 1971 contest between France and the Netherlands was the first official women's international match.
Ms. de Diego noted that Breton, the group's leader, had even decreed that a Surrealist female artist could not also be a mother.
In June, without enough hard cash to pay the soldiers who defend it, the government decreed that shops must accept only funny money.
" In his adopted state of California, it is decreed by law: "The governor annually shall proclaim April 21 to be 'John Muir Day.
Opinion I was a child when the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos decreed martial law in 1972, casting a long spell over the Philippines.
And it&aposs also possible that said innovator has decreed that hot desking is the new future for you and your co-workers.
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions decreed that most people fleeing domestic abuse or gang violence would no longer be eligible for asylum.
When Constantine the Great ruled the Roman Empire in very early 4th century, he decreed acceptance for those of the new Christian faith.
Also on Monday, Deputy U.N. spokeswoman Eri Kaneko told reporters in New York that the military council had decreed to the African Union-U.
Markus Söder, the newish Bavarian premier, has decreed that from June 1st a crucifix must be displayed in all offices of the regional government.
In March, the bishop of Monreale in Palermo province decreed that members of the Mafia could not act as "godfathers" in the literal sense.
These things are both extremely terrible, so we at Noisey have decreed that anyone who has ever been "alt" is heretofore bad as well.
In May, King Salman decreed that government agencies should list services women can seek without permission from their husbands, fathers or other male guardian.
But clearly, he is testifying with the hope of receiving a more lenient sentence than the three years in prison a judge has decreed.
He had been slow on his feet but as solid and abiding as an old stone bridge; he had weathered what the skies decreed.
Basically, if the Supreme Court makes no effort to rein in the Obama administration, future immigration policy will largely be decreed by the executive.
The cemetery was built during the French occupation of Venice, when it was decreed that burying the dead on the main islands was unsanitary.
Mr. Kim has just personally decreed an end to the season of diplomacy — after personally summoning it into existence at the start of 2018.
I've not decreed that all music nowadays is terrible yet; without Spotify, I'm pretty sure I was on course to do so by 2014.
The weather decreed urgency, discouraging field-goal attempts and encouraging fourth-down boldness, and the game turned on those choices in the fourth quarter.
As vice president, Mr. El Aissami wields newly decreed authority to expropriate businesses and lock up rivals seen by the leftist government as traitors.
Thousands of people had been confined in the region under armed guard, and the French military commander had decreed that ID cards were mandatory.
They would also be limited to three months by law and they would be non-renewable, as the Obama administration had decreed by regulation.
And here, flaunting the wisdom thusly decreed, is Lil Wayne making a series of mistakes that should make anyone yearn for a second chance.
Abortion in El Salvador has been criminalized in all circumstances for the past two decades, after the country's legislature decreed that life begins at conception.
Last September, King Salman decreed an end to the world's only ban on women drivers, maintained for decades by Saudi Arabia's deeply conservative Muslim establishment.
A few weeks earlier, the male elders of their caste had decreed that village women working at nearby meat-processing factories should leave their jobs.
Abadi's predecessor, Nuri al-Maliki, decreed a state of emergency restricting media coverage in 2014 after Islamic State seized a third of the country's territory.
Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity, Singapore had decreed the presidency, a largely ceremonial six-year post, would be reserved for Malays this time.
"While the operation did not bring down the plane as Allah had decreed, it struck terror in the hearts of the crusaders," the statement reads.
On Friday, the Spanish government decreed a legal change giving firms the right to move their headquarters without having to win the approval of shareholders.
At around that time, Jamil Mukulu had decreed that any person with intentions to escape, or even thinking of escaping; that person would be executed.
Perhaps this is the wisdom of grandparents, who lived in areas where wine was consumed daily but the selection was meager and decreed by custom.
So he agreed when Weinstein said he would not contest a lesser charge of manslaughter, and the judge decreed the minimum sentence of seven years.
Upon becoming chief executive, Mr. Irving immediately decreed that GoDaddy would no longer run sexist ads, and reiterated the company's commitment to combating workplace discrimination.
He has even decreed that the presidency will henceforth directly supervise the government printing department, which has been working long hours to publish his many orders.
The slim, white volume also contains the papal bull announcing the Holy Year of Mercy, a special jubilee year decreed by Francis during Lent of 2015.
The ban on the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), decreed by the Supreme Court at the government's request, followed the arrest of its leader for treason.
Queen of Selfies Kim Kardashian-West has decreed that two selfies per minute is the korrect selfie frequency to make the most out of your vacation.
In the coal industry, for instance, officials last year simply decreed that mines should operate for just 276 days—a limit that they unwound this year.
Elsewhere in Russia, under a crash building programme decreed by the Russian Orthodox church, at least three new churches are said to be opening per day.
It wasn't until 1955 that Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield decreed that the boxes would be blue at the base and red on top, with white lettering.
As decreed by the unbreakable laws of romantic comedy, it's not just the bosses who find themselves attracted to each other, but their assistants as well.
Two months later, people who had made the big change said that they were happier than those who hadn't, regardless of what their coin flip decreed.
French Ambassador Alice Guitton said Guterres' statement was very timely, but disarmament could not be decreed, it needed to be built with patience, perseverance and realism.
On July 2000th the provincial government of British Columbia decreed that, after that date, foreign buyers must pay a new 153% tax on any residential purchase.
Between them, they decreed that the only people entitled to an invitation in New York society were the 400 "old" families who had got there first.
Only there could Lyft drivers pick me up; so decreed the deal struck after a lengthy brawl between the ride-hailing startups and the taxi industry.
The king had decreed the creation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee, headed by the crown prince, only hours before the committee ordered the arrests.
Her supporters have decreed that she will win the black vote by a landslide just because she's a Democrat, and have basically stopped thinking about it.
A new rule this year from the Tony administration committee decreed that only categories with nine or more eligible competitors will get the usual five nominees.
Starting this month, the city of Berlin decreed that she would have to remove four picnic tables because they were occupying space on a public walkway.
The room-obsessed ladies' designs are foiled by a Bethenny Frankel decreed lottery, where everyone must choose a number between one through seven out of a hat.
In December 2016 Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, decreed that the 100-bolívar note, then the largest in circulation, would cease to be legal tender within three days.
Its grip on names was entrenched by Napoleon in 1803, who decreed that all babies should be named after a saint (or a figure from ancient history).
That model traces its roots to 1808, when Napoleon Bonaparte introduced the baccalauréat and decreed that anybody who passed it was entitled to a place at university.
Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity in the multicultural country, Singapore had decreed the presidency would be reserved for candidates from the Malay community this time.
The official reason for dropping the pension bill was a military intervention in crime-plagued Rio de Janeiro state, decreed on Friday after unprecedented violence during Carnival.
He also decreed the establishment of a Leading Small Group dedicated to United Front activity, signifying a direct line of command from the politburo to United Front.
The court's foundational document, adopted in 1998, is the Rome Statute, which decreed that there should be no statute of limitations for genocide and crimes against humanity.
In a dystopian future (the only kind we get these days), the American government has decreed that one night a year will be given over to lawlessness.
"All the defendants are older than 65 and have pertinent medical preconditions, so they belong to the risk group as decreed," the court said in a statement.
On Monday, the day the new economic plan was rolled out, streets were quiet and most shops were closed, as Mr. Maduro had decreed a national holiday.
Around 600 A.D., Pope Gregory the Great decreed that fetal rabbits, or laurices, were not meat, and could be eaten during Lent, when meat was not allowed.
The city is also upgrading insulation in older buildings and has decreed that 50 percent of all new municipal buildings will be made of wood by 2020.
The government decreed later that year that ships carrying car imports bound for Colombo port would instead offload their cargo at Hambantota to kick-start business there.
Last week, a federal judge decreed that the Army Corps of Engineers had done an insufficient job reviewing the environmental impact of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Its heroine, Li Xuelian (Fan Bingbing), is seeking a divorce so she can claim a second apartment the Chinese government has decreed available to only single people.
Antonin Scalia died in February, but Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, decreed that the seat would be held open, to be filled by the next President.
Nevertheless, progress on actually building and testing a detector was slow until the National Science Foundation decreed that the project needed a single director, not a triad.
But there was a buzz kill: King Friday XIII, the mighty ruler in his bright purple cape, decreed that the festival would be a bass-violin festival.
This is the first formal resignation the Pope has decreed since every bishop in Chile offered to step down in May over the country's sex abuse scandal.
The upcoming North-South dialogue was decreed by Kim Jong-un in his New Year's Day address, after two years of brushing off diplomatic feelers from Seoul.
When you're young, it can be easy to internalize these ideas, as though law has decreed that all interests must fall neatly into one gender defined box.
That year, King George V decreed that the family's dynasty would be known as "the House of Windsor," and that they would also use Windsor as a surname.
Then-French Prime Minister François Fillon decreed in 2011 that women were banned from wearing face veils outside of the home except in mosques or as car passengers.
Unlike her sisters, Scarlet has an extra task on her awards show to-do list — spending an hour a day walking in heels, as decreed by Sylvester himself.
"At some point, the royal court of Oussouye decreed some women could join in showing off their skills at these festivals," explained Abdou Ndao, a Dakar-based anthropologist.
That is thanks to Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, who decreed an extra day off to join up a series of tantalisingly close public holidays and weekends.
If anything, the gilets jaunes protests showed that public policy cannot be decreed from on high, and Mr Macron claims that he has heard and understood this message.
India's government decreed in 2009 that 73% of places in private schools should be reserved for "economically weaker sections" who would be paid for by each state government.
It also implemented the policy especially strictly because it is dominated by state-owned industries which decreed that people who had a second child would lose their jobs.
The group has been persecuted in Russia since April 2017 when the Supreme Court decreed that the sect should be added to a list of outlawed, extremist organisations.
As long as it is classified as waste, it's heading for a near total ban, such as already implemented for scrap plastic, because that's what Beijing has decreed.
The 16th amendment to the American constitution introduced an income tax and the 17th decreed that US senators should be elected by popular vote, not by local legislatures.
China has decreed that one fifth of its automobile fleet will run on alternative fuel within eight years; every worldwide automaker will have to compete in that space.
Both Sassuolo and Brescia play in Serie A, Italy's top-flight soccer league, which had previously decreed that games would be played behind closed doors until April 3.
Not ceding any ground, President Trump's re-election campaign has decreed that a trio of Mountain West blue states — Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico — are "flippable" in 2020.
The Afghan president recently decreed a complete ban on the importation of Iranian saffron and saffron bulbs so they do not dilute the quality of his country's product.
Just as the chef, Fergus Henderson, decreed when it opened in 1994, there was no music, no art, no flowers and no color anywhere but on the plates.
To the disappointment of Mirror's sales staff, Ms. Welch recently decreed that APL sneakers, not the $300 Yeezy Boosts she originally selected, should be worn in the store.
A drawing in the event of a tie — picking out of a bowl one of two film canisters with the candidates' names inside — is decreed by state law.
"True religion is no more than the system which God had decreed to govern the affairs of human life," Sayyid Qutb, a prominent Islamist ideologue, wrote in the 1960s.
Once the future King Karl had grown out of it four years later, his father decreed the cradle was to be reserved only for ceremonial, rather than everyday, use.
Your will is done when governments are rightly administered, liberty is preserved, justice is decreed, dignity is assured, and care is extended to the most vulnerable of your children.
President Maithripala Sirisena decreed a state of emergency in Kandy on Wednesday but crowds carried out more attacks targeting mosques and businesses belonging to Muslims overnight, residents told Reuters.
The state-run Saudi Press Agency and state TV reported the news late Tuesday evening, saying King Salman decreed that both men and women to be issued drivers' licenses.
The law had been decreed by Saddam, the longtime strongman president who was executed in 2006 after being ousted three years before by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Then, in 1960, a director decreed that no one would be permitted to enter screenings once his new film had begun: the integrity of the viewing experience was paramount.
"Christians need to take back the rainbow as we do @ArkEncounter -God owns it-He decreed it's a sign of His covenant with man after the Flood," he tweeted.
It also made TANF payments conditional on the recipient trying to find work; and it decreed that no one could receive them for more than five years in total.
But this old system was decreed unfair by a bunch of MPs and civil servants because some troops ate less than others, and some may have even missed meals.
Authorities had earlier decreed holidays and banned trucks in some areas of the sprawling city for peak periods of the Olympics to ease congestion and improve emergency response capabilities.
More important, the king decreed a new order of succession, overturning the wishes of King Abdullah and replacing his designated crown prince, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, with Prince bin Nayef.
In China: Alibaba's health care arm, AliHealth, is limited to selling over-the-counter pharmaceuticals because of a government ban decreed last year on online sale of prescription drugs.
Mr. Hadi, the exiled president, decreed that he was relocating the country's central bank from Sana to the southern port city of Aden, where his government has a presence.
In 1893, a fruit importer argued before the Supreme Court that tomatoes should be classified as fruits, not as vegetables as the Port Authority of New York had decreed.
In 1240, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II decreed that no one should harass travelers to its autumn fair, where wine, gold, horses and more were bought and sold.
Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has decreed that all Fridays for the next two months will be holidays, in a bid to save energy in the blackout-hit OPEC country.
What he doesn't know however, is that Minister Panin has decreed that any attempt by Prisoner Number One to escape from captivity counts as grounds for his immediate execution.
Mass resignation That was the first formal resignation the Pope has decreed since every bishop in Chile offered to step down in May over the country's sex abuse scandal.
The club's founders decreed, in the earliest years of the tournament, that any members present had to make themselves available to patrons who might be in need of assistance.
If good old Constantine had decreed four days in a week, doctors would be prescribing antibiotics in four- or eight-day courses, rather than seven- or 14-day courses.
"Today Israel decreed that developing settlement in Judea and Samaria is an Israeli interest," said Bezalel Smotrich, a right-wing lawmaker, using the biblical names for the West Bank.
Republican senators like Susan Collins (R-ME) and Dean Heller (R-NV) have already decreed that they'll oppose a GOP health bill that causes tens of millions to lose insurance.
Had it not been for a fortuitous amnesty for political prisoners decreed by Fulgencio Batista, the dictator he went on to overthrow, he might have rotted for decades in prison.
Kirchner and his successor, and wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner converted former torture and detention centers into memorials, and decreed March 24th a special holiday to commemorate the military coup.
Buddhist mobs attacked mosques and businesses belonging to Muslims overnight, residents told Reuters on Wednesday, even after President Maithripala Sirisena decreed an emergency for seven days to curb the violence.
The summer of 2016 was a torrid one for that country's beaches, as many local authorities decreed bans on the burkini, a full-body swimsuit favoured by some Muslim women.
The State Council, or cabinet, last year decreed that government institutions from the county level upwards must hire legal advisers or in-house counsel by the end of this year.
This means tens of thousands of patients receive care governed by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) decreed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
In response to that scandal, Kelly in February 2018 decreed that any interim security clearances for staffers whose background investigations were pending since June 1 or before would be discontinued.
The government abruptly banned the use of foreign currencies on June 24 and decreed that domestic transactions would now be in the local RTGS currency, which was renamed Zimbabwe dollar.
Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity, Singapore had decreed the presidency, a largely ceremonial six-year post, would be reserved for candidates from the minority Malay community this time.
Such budgets are a requirement of the Climate Change Act of 2008, which decreed that by 2050 Britain's net emissions of greenhouse gases should be 80% lower than in 1990.
The Indonesian Ulama Council, known as the MUI, decreed that observant Muslims in the country should consider the measles vaccine haram, or forbidden, because it contains gelatin derived from pork.
The once mighty Brit Awards used to have an award for 'Best Soundtrack', but it stopped in 2001, when it was presumably decreed that nobody would ever beat American Beauty.
During my shift, the governor decreed all bars and restaurants should close, so I had to do last call and lock the place up in the middle of the day.
Monday's street disturbances followed sharp increases in fuel prices decreed by Mnangagwa, five months after post-election violence during which six people died when the army intervened to quell trouble.
Ataturk decreed a switch from the Arabic to the Latin alphabet and, in an extraordinary purge, sought to get rid of Arabic and Persian borrowings, replacing them with new coinages.
Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridges in London, once decreed that "a store should be a social center," and put an ice rink and a shooting range in his.
The FCC decreed that wireless carriers can&apost dip into the government&aposs Universal Service Fund (USF) to buy from companies designated a national security threat — which rules out Huawei.
In response, the Warren Court decreed that before trial, prosecutors must turn over evidence that is ''favorable'' to the defense if it is ''material either to guilt or to punishment.
Poland's legal system has been thrown into chaos, with cases being postponed, since its top court decreed that rulings made by judges appointed under new government rules could be challenged.
But a few months later, he decreed that the capital would move from Almaty — the country's largest city, in the more populous, more ethnically Kazakh south — to the northern steppe.
So bad is the shortage of buses that the interim government has decreed that vehicles belonging to the police and army be used to ferry ordinary people about the city.
As retaliation for joining protests against the state-sanctioned assassinations of a number of artists, which began in 2006, the government decreed a three-year gallery ban on Ahi's work.
The Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi decreed in May that markets could sell cattle only for agricultural purposes, including for use in plowing fields and dairy production.
It was decreed that no one could gaze upon the nakedness of Artemis, the Stormy Virgin Goddess…unless, of course, they paid their subscription fee for the really good stuff.
In 1976, following the rise of the 1960s Conservation Movement and an increased focus on the environmental, it was decreed to not be natural enough and lost its official designation.
The government has decreed that no festivities be held for a period of 30 days, the first month of one year of official mourning, but shopping malls were open on Saturday.
" Venezuela decreed three days of public mourning, canceled a music festival in Caracas, and state television dedicated a special program to Castro, publicized with the slogan "Honor and Glory to Fidel.
Aiming to strengthen a sense of inclusivity, multicultural Singapore had decreed the presidency, a largely ceremonial six-year post, would be reserved for candidates from the minority Malay community this time.
In 2016 the central government decreed that every lake and river, or segment thereof in the case of larger ones, must have someone tasked with keeping them free of visible pollutants.
Last June Dubai imposed a freeze on school fees, and last December Pakistan's Supreme Court decreed that schools charging more than 5,000 rupees a month must cut their fees by 20%.
Two mass movements that have long been mainstays of European elections, one socialist and one nationalist, emerged overnight in revulsion to the Clinton and Bush dynasts decreed by the party elites.
In the 1980s and 1990s its then boss, Jack Welch, decreed that it should be among the world's top three in all the businesses it was involved in, or get out.
In Roraima, the rural state of which Boa Vista is the capital, the governor last week decreed a "social emergency," putting local services on alert for mounting health and security demands.
In 1964, when Margaret Chase Smith ran at 66 for the Republican nomination, a Los Angeles Times columnist decreed that 45-to-55 was the optimum range for a presidential candidate.
By the end of the hearing, Judge Brenda Penny had decreed that Britney would undergo a "730 expert evaluation," a type of independent assessment that courts often order during custody disagreements.
In case you need a refresher, the 1973 ruling decreed, among other things, that a woman's right to privacy under the 14th Amendment made any state law banning all abortions unconstitutional.
In 2012, former Pope Benedict decreed that Puglisi died as a martyr in "hatred of the faith," and ordered that he be beatified, the last step before sainthood in the Church.
The federal government announced a day of mourning after the latest blast, with national flags at half-staff in all government buildings in Baluchistan, where two days of mourning were decreed.
Yes, the investment banker turned president, Emmanuel Macron, has decreed alterations to the famously voluminous French labor code that make it less of an expensive hassle for employers to fire workers.
In the build-up to the election, the government decreed that mobile phone networks increase the cost of data bundles by 60 percent, severely limiting people's ability to access information online.
Most notably, while Sessions decreed that his ruling overturned any precedent that contradicted it, USCIS only told asylum officers to stop using the one precedent decision Sessions explicitly named as moot.
People in the key cities of Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru rushed to stock up after Modi decreed the shutdown in a speech televised nationwide, barely four hours before it took effect.
The government decreed all hotels and other tourist accommodation be shut within seven days to "guarantee the containment of the pandemic," a further hit to the country's already ailing tourism sector.
The government decreed all hotels and other tourist accommodation be shut within seven days to "guarantee the containment of the pandemic," a further hit to the country's already ailing tourism sector.
Congress has wisely decreed that the citizens of the nation shall be divided into classes and that men shall be put into those classes where they will be the most useful.
In 2202, the FISA court upheld surveillance based on a 2628 law that effectively decreed that any American who exchanged emails or phone calls with foreigners forfeited their right to privacy.
In Rio, violence has risen and weeks ago, the federal government decreed that Brazil's army would take over all security operations through the end of the year to tackle that problem.
"We have decreed from this morning two days of mourning, so all of our restaurants will remain closed," McDonald&aposs Peru said in a statement in Portuguese on Twitter on Tuesday.
In the 1990s, Congress did an end run around the I.R.S. and decreed that corporate sponsorships did not amount to advertising, which could be subject to the unrelated business income tax.
Maduro had decreed a national holiday for the first day of a plan that will slash five zeros from prices in a bid to tame hyperinflation, as part of his economic package.
Venezuela's opposition on Saturday slammed a state of emergency decreed by President Nicolas Maduro and vowed to press home efforts to remove the leftist leader this year amid a grim economic crisis.
Federal Election Commission and several additional decisions, the Court effectively decreed that the American people cannot legislate election funding limits regardless of the loss of equal rights to representation and free speech.
In 1962, John F. Kennedy, apparently fed up with the coverage of The New York Herald Tribune, decreed that copies of that newspaper would no longer be delivered to the White House.
Four months into our reporting, we were in the village for a series of tense, clamorous late-night meetings, in which the elders grudgingly decreed that the women could return to work.
Advocates for the migrants expressed satisfaction that the judge had decreed that the elements of associative life they take most pride in here — schools, the theater and other places — must be preserved.
The agencies had reportedly used Dataminr's service for two years before Twitter decreed that it must stop, with sources saying Twitter was concerned about appearing too close to the American intelligence community.
It's 54 years since Kennedy died and a quarter century since Congress decreed Thursday as the day when all classified records related to the assassination should be thrown open to the public.
Last year, amid a debate on gender identity, the chancellor decreed that the female school uniform was valid for both sexes, and some male students and teachers began wearing skirts to class.
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Mining reforms decreed by Brazilian President Michel Temer are likely to pass Congress, a legislative leader told Reuters on Wednesday, despite opposition from an industry trade group.
PARIS — The most urgent gossip this Paris Fashion Week has centered on Hedi Slimane, the press-averse designer of Saint Laurent, whom the rumor mill has decreed is imminently leaving Saint Laurent.
Shortly after the hearing, news emerged that the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party decreed that North Korea will never relinquish its nuclear arsenal, marking another break with Trump's assessment.
There's a central reason why President Obama went around Congress and decreed his controversial Deferred Action programs: He couldn't get them through the legislative process because they are unpopular with the public.
She wrote that Mr. Hardwick had decreed, among other things, that she "was to not have close male friends" unless they worked together and that she was not to speak in public.
But the British, eager to appease Myanmar's Buddhist majority, decreed that the Rohingya areas would become part of newly independent Myanmar (then called Burma), setting the Rohingya up for decades of discrimination.
Like other nearby sanctuaries such as Avignon and Cavaillon, Carpentras was not in France, but within the Comtat Venaissin, a papal state, where Pope John XXII decreed that refugees would be welcome.
New legislation in 1810 decreed that the collections of male religious orders, which had been recently dissolved, be stored in Seville's Alcázar (the royal palace), which is where the Murillo canvases went.
Ms. O'Neill, who has been with U.C.B. since 2000, decreed, for some reason, that anyone who lost a dance battle had to be sacrificed to the Dumpster in front of the theater.
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Israelis were not welcome to visit the kingdom after Israel decreed that Israeli citizens could visit Saudi Arabia under certain circumstances, CNN reported on Monday.
More outrageous, such hope cannot be decreed from above by politicians, leaders or businesspeople, but only created from below by people struggling together for a fair, dignified and free way of life.
She displayed toughness in war, ordering the invasion of Pakistan in support of the creation of Bangladesh, and decreed martial law when unrest and charges of corruption threatened to topple her administration.
Reacting to the sentence, "I was embarrassed for trying, for being led to believe I had any influence," Miller wrote anonymously for Glamour magazine in the months after the punishment was decreed.
But he had inklings of déjà vu in 2006, when Barbara Corcoran, the real estate guru, decreed that the South Bronx was among the five hottest real estate markets in the nation.
After all, Rick himself decreed a pretty sensical killing philosophy before the war began, so it would have been nice to not devote the season's second episode to asking the same damn question.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana President John Mahama has decreed the early release of three men convicted over death threats against Supreme Court judges made during a panel discussion broadcast on a local radio station.
Initial tweaks in August had little effect, but on September 20th the government abruptly decreed a sharp cut in corporate tax, from an effective rate of 35% to a far more competitive 25%.
France's university system, by contrast, has been run as an arm of the state since Napoleon decreed that it should be so in 1808, and it is one of Europe's least selective systems.
Parliamentary authorities have decreed that the media encampment - the source of thousands of Brexit despatches broadcast all over the globe - be temporarily dismantled next week to allow the downtrodden turf to be repaired.
Despite having exposed two fourth graders to nipple and Kama Sutra jokes by taking us to a screening of Scrooged earlier in the evening, Ashley's father had decreed that this movie was inappropriate.
Both the Sunni Taliban militant group and a local Islamic State affiliate have in the past attacked religious scholars aligned with the government — who have decreed that suicide attacks are forbidden by Islam.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government decreed a 683 percent hike in fuel prices last weekend, which triggered the three-day strike, during which protesters barricaded roads with rocks and burned tyres and looted shops.
" State media added that the CAC decreed that "online media reporters are expected to actively expound socialist core values and amplify the mainstream voice in the internet, making cyber space 'clear and bright.
In May 215, a judge decreed that Mr. Mubarak had completed his three-year prison sentence for corruption, in the only successful prosecution of the onetime strongman since his turbulent ouster in 230.
In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts decreed that central protections in the Voting Rights Act "have lost their relevance" because "things have changed dramatically" in the 50 years since the law's initial passage.
" The Russian military has decreed a few unilateral pauses in the siege since mid-October, calling them gestures to give fighters and civilians an opportunity to leave and avoid "senseless loss of life.
The student-run Interfraternity Council, which oversees 27 fraternity chapters at the flagship state university, has decreed that social events, like mixers and parties, as well as pledging activities, would be stopped indefinitely.
So Bordeaux, wanting to keep its dominance over the wine trade with England, decreed that no wine could be traded out of Bordeaux until the majority of Bordelais wine had already been sold.
Team shirts should, FIFA's laws dictate, be unadorned with "political, religious or personal" iconography; the poppy, it had previously been decreed, fell into one or more of those categories, and was thus forbidden.
Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County National constitutional prohibition, as decreed by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, was devastating to the beer industry in the short term.
Santos late on Tuesday decreed that a government ceasefire put in place in August would be extended until the end of the month in a bid to allow time to salvage the deal.
Chairman Mao decreed that China should produce more steel: as a result, much of the country's existing stocks of the metal were melted down in backyard furnaces which produced poor quality pig iron.
"The road to the White House starts in South Carolina," Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia happily decreed Monday, as two likely candidates, waiting their chance to speak, sat behind him in silent testimony.
Mr. Rai and others said progress was more visible in the commercial sphere: Muslims and Dalits were no longer denied service at lunch counters; castes were no longer confined to divinely decreed occupations.
That's according to the great oracle the Daily Mail, anyway, which somehow this week decreed that the ideal number of instances of intercourse you should be enduring per week is one. One. Uno.
Protesters hijacked a passenger bus from a nearby terminal and attempted to drive it through a police cordon to a university where about 70 demonstrators were rallying against a nationally decreed bus fare hike.
Maduro last week decreed an "economic emergency" in the recession-hit nation with the fastest inflation in the world rings up a roughly $10 billion foreign debt bill this year amid plunging oil revenues.
In a setback for meat and leather industries dominated by Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government had decreed that animal markets could only trade cattle for agricultural purposes, such as plowing and dairy production.
The Homeowners Loan Corporation, established in the 1930s to refinance mortgages, set a discriminatory pattern when it drew lines around black communities — a system known as "redlining" — and decreed them unsafe for federal investment.
Fulfilling a campaign promise to his staunch supporters in the farm sector, Bolsonaro decreed that indigenous land claims, a source of bloody clashes on Brazil's agricultural frontier, would be decided by the Agriculture Ministry.
The US Supreme Court has decreed that when the government seizes these expressive materials, or the proceeds derived from them, it must immediately hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the seizure is valid.
Last year it decreed that the ten biggest banche popolari—mutual banks with local political ties—be transformed into joint stock companies by the end of 2016, making them much easier to take over.
CARACAS, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government decreed on Friday a 60-day "economic emergency" for the recession-hit OPEC reeling from low oil prices and a sputtering state-led economic model.
In the latest setback to the Muslim-dominated meat industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government decreed animal markets will only be able to trade cattle for agricultural purposes such as ploughing and dairy production.
Days before the opening, a feng shui practitioner decreed that the fountain in the courtyard be torn out because its outer rim contained points; he was mollified when workers hastily sawed off the points.
He decreed a 2-point increase in the Valued Added Tax for a year, as well as a "one-off 3 percent additional contribution on profits," although the fine print was not immediately clear.
Quiroga had decreed that his hospital be built on top of what was once the palace of the Purépecha emperor, and the Indian was of the opinion that it couldn't be a good place.
Related: 'Welcome to Hell': Rio police greet visitors five weeks before the Olympics In June the Rio de Janeiro state government decreed an official state of emergency as the region spiraled into economic meltdown.
After a seven-hour meeting, the government decreed a nationwide lockdown, extending the kind of measures that various regional authorities — including in the capital, Madrid, and in Catalonia — had already taken in recent days.
Saying that recent events had exposed some "shortcomings," Kelly decreed that any interim security clearances for staffers whose background investigations have been pending since June 1 or before will be discontinued in a week.
Long before Cardi B received her first pair of Louboutins, Louis XIV wore five-inch red heels and decreed that the early "red bottoms" would be worn only by members of the royal court.
During the Reagan Administration, regulators and courts decreed that antitrust decisions should largely be based not on a company's size or on its bullying tactics but, rather, on any price hikes imposed on customers.
In 2018, the FDA decreed that most sweet flavors of vapes were restricted to places where people under 18 could not freely shop, but it stopped short of a full ban on flavored products.
Venezuela's socialist government decreed an "economic emergency" on Friday and published the first data in a year showing the depth of a recession fueled by low oil prices and a sputtering state-led model.
The crisis in the region escalated further Wednesday when the UAE decreed that showing support or sympathy for Qatar online was punishable by up to 15 years in jail or a fine of $136,000.
At the very least, even if it's not him, it's possible that he digs it so much that he's decreed that it can remain on streaming services, which feels like a pretty Frank move.
Sanchez, who has been trying to get voters on his side before a series of elections in the next two years, decreed a 22 percent rise in the minimum wage, the biggest in four decades.
Musk has decreed that Tesla should build its own software where possible, instead of relying on business factory management programs like SAP or Sage, or service center and dealership software like QuickBase, DealerTrack or ADP.
Periscope's usage is likely to see a significant spike, and Twitter can begin to reclaim some of the ground it lost to Facebook once Mark Zuckerberg decreed that live video was the next big thing.
Saudi Arabia is dedicated to growing the event, starting the royally-decreed Camel Club, in hopes that the entire country and eventually the globe will come together to celebrate the beauty of Botox-free camels.  
Car stuff, car stuff, and more car stuffAs our friends at Jalopnik have accurately decreed, CES has increasingly become more of a car show over the last few years, and in 2016 that trend continues.
Most hosts will not meet that deadline because they are still obtaining their registration numbers, and on June 1st Japan's main tourism body unexpectedly decreed that any without them had to cancel reservations at once.
They were the 1854 Northcote-Trevelyan report, which opened civil-service jobs to competitive examinations, and the Education Act of 1944, which decreed that children should be educated according to their "age, ability and aptitude".
China's government decreed in 2014 that its national anthem can't be played at events with an "inappropriate atmosphere" and must be sung in full, with no-one is permitted to start or stop singing midway.
Mayors have been a mainstay of French life since the revolutionaries of 20143 decreed that wherever a church steeple arises — even if only a few houses are clustered around it — there should be a mayor.
CBD may not have died in 2019 (the VICE-decreed Year of CBD, when the various tinctures and candies and infused leggings were ubiquitous past the point of annoyance), but it might happen in 2020.
Called on to clarify previous conflicting interpretations of the law, the Court of Cassation decreed that the crime of growing narcotic drugs should exclude "small amounts grown domestically for the exclusive use of the grower".
Saudi Arabia will soon allow women to drive, King Salman decreed Tuesday, in a move that ends the kingdom's reign as the only country in the world that forbids women from obtaining their driver's licenses.
CARACAS, May 14 (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition on Saturday slammed a state of emergency decreed by President Nicolas Maduro and vowed to press home efforts to remove the leftist leader this year amid a grim economic crisis.
At a meeting in 2014 the party's Central Committee decided to make officials swear loyalty to it, ordered schools to teach students about it and decreed that December 4th would be celebrated henceforth as Constitution Day.
Just before this one, the government decreed that retired party officials should not be members of religious organisations, one more example of tighter party discipline (working officials are already banned from belonging to any religious group).
A law he decreed last year, in the absence of parliament and as he was to host a conference of international donors, aimed to limit some forms of compensation and tie bonuses and promotions to performance.
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro has decreed extra powers to his oil czar Manuel Quevedo to try and halt sliding crude output in crisis-hit Venezuela, which has sunk to its lowest level since the 1950s.
Once again, Judge Sabraw had to step in and call foul, ordering that the government coordinate with the A.C.L.U. Complicating matters, the administration has decreed that reunifications must take place in the family's country of origin.
On Soccer MOSCOW — Half a million fans — by current, suspiciously optimistic, estimates — will descend on Russia next year for what Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, has already decreed will be the "best" World Cup in history.
Because of the virus's accelerating spread, the mayor decreed on Sunday evening, all residents of the capital would be forbidden to leave their homes starting Monday and will need special passes to move around the city.
Watching television aboard Air Force One, on a flight back from his summit in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean despot, Mr. Trump decreed that Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina must be defeated.
Mr. Moreno decreed a 60-day state of emergency on Thursday, when the fuel subsidies repeal took effect, as strikes and violent protests by transport workers and others made much of Ecuador come to a standstill.
The new limits — abruptly decreed ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, China's busiest travel season — were an extraordinary step that underscored the ruling Communist Party's deepening fears about the outbreak of a little understood coronavirus.
Before his first full week was done, he temporarily barred refugees from entering the United States, halted immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries and decreed that Christians get preference over Muslims when we let outsiders in.
"A successful magazine has to build a myth its readers can believe in," decreed the celebrated editor Harold Hayes, and under his watch, Esquire did not just cover the '280s, it became part of the story.
Poland's Supreme Court decreed on the same day that, in view of the clash with EU law, rulings made by judges appointed under new government rules could come into question, and courts have begun postponing cases.
It marks the first time a flattop has paid homage to an African American — a Navy Cross recipient and an enlisted service member — and it was decreed on a day set aside to remember the Rev.
Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the 160s BC. After outlawing the Jewish religion and Jewish practices, then-King Antiochus IV decreed that Jews must worship Greek gods in the Temple.
So when the time came, it was decreed he would sacrifice himself to save her, paving the way for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of Melissa McBride developing Carol into a middle-aged, female Rambo.
The mezzanine level of the hub was constructed from the roof downward, defying standard engineering practice, because its roof doubles as part of the memorial plaza, which Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg decreed must be open by Sept.
She will be crushed, literally, because despite being in absolutely tip-top condition, despite starting first time every time, despite her unbelievable fuel economy and once green credentials, the mayor of London has decreed she must die.
In its insatiable search for drama, it is showing us scenes that Martin has decreed impossible — such as allowing Daenerys to survive a giant Dothraki fire for a second time, with no clear explanation as to why.
He decreed that his country's future lay in setting aside its fear and resentment of its mighty neighbour to the north and embracing economic integration with the United States through the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
But Mr. Grassley — with Mr. McConnell's eager backing — has decreed that he will not allow home-state senators to use the so-called blue slip process to block appeals court nominees, as they have in the past.
On Sunday, just four days after Sisi and Saudi Arabia's King Salman held a public meeting at an Arab summit in Jordan, another Egyptian court decreed that the administrative court's ruling was void - potentially reviving the deal.
Rather, it is the passing of a law concerning beer by two Bavarian dukes, Wilhelm IV and his brother Ludwig X. Henceforth, they decreed, brewers in Bavaria were to use only three ingredients: water, barley and hops.
Six years ago Hiroshi Mikitani, the Harvard-educated boss of Rakuten, an e-commerce giant with operations in 30 countries, decreed that English should become the firm's main language; it no longer conducts any meetings in Japanese.
After TPG bought into Creative Artists, the agency decreed that all but its most senior agents could no longer stay at the luxurious St. Regis in New York, according to "Powerhouse," a 2016 book about the agency.
The tension between the president and the players was rekindled in recent weeks when N.F.L. owners decreed last month that players would face punishment — and their teams could be fined — if they knelt during the national anthem.
The new travel limits — abruptly decreed ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, China's busiest travel season — were an extraordinary step that underlined the governing Communist Party's deepening fears about the outbreak of a little-understood coronavirus.
The tax law decreed that future foreign profits would not be taxed at high rates, and that previously earned profits stashed abroad — an estimated $2.7 trillion — would be taxed one time at no more than 15.5 percent.
The politics of immigration suddenly got even more difficult on Monday, when the Trump administration decreed that 200,000 El Salvadorans, allowed to work in the US since fleeing earthquakes in their country in 2001 must now leave.
Hours before the talks were due to start, Ghani decreed the formation of a ministry for peace to push for direct talks with the Taliban, to be headed by his top aide, Abdul Salam Rahimi, Ghani's spokesman said.
In a further move, the TMC decreed that all state entities disclose financial holdings within 72 hours and warned that officials who failed to comply could be fined and face up to 10 years in prison, SUNA said.
Through subsequent civil war, with sectarian rival elites looting the state, that majority has failed to build cohesion around the power-sharing with the Sunni Arabs and self-governing Kurdish minority decreed by a 2003 post-war constitution.
Minimum wage increases are now decreed several times per year but rarely keep pace with the depreciation of the bolivar, which has lost 99 percent of its value on the black market since Maduro took office in 2013.
Another sharp-tongued Flemish politician, Belgium's deputy premier Jan Jambon, duly retorted that if the imam's appeal prevails, a fresh revocation of his permit will be decreed on different grounds and the end-result will be the same.
It is pointed out to him that the reason they may not have reached out to him since he became pope is that they're hippies, and presumably take umbrage with the hard line Pius has decreed as pope.
But, oblivious to the logical outcome of the imposed fiscal austerity, the EU Commission is now warning the Italian government that the sinking economic growth would lead to overshooting the budget deficit target decreed by the Commission itself.
The National Flood Insurance Program can charge an unsubsidized, or "actuarial," rate for coverage (as Congress decreed in 2012, though it later severely limited how rapidly those rates could rise); doing so would impose crippling costs on homeowners.
The government of President Martin Vizcarra has decreed a state of emergency and a nightly curfew for 15 days that ends in late March, some of the most drastic measures among Latin American countries to fight the virus.
The Ford building was shortly to be renovated, and he had decreed that his splendid presidential suite—which now included a kitchen, a shower, and a conference room that sat forty—should be reduced to half its size.
Fervid, hand-wringing articles have decreed this generation to be addicted to Tinder, incapable of commitment, and deeply averse to labels within relationships: an ultra-casual, free-for-all "dating apocalypse," as one Vanity Fair writer described it.
In the majority ruling, which four other justices joined, Justice Clarence Thomas decreed that requiring the centers to post notices about family planning and their medical licenses imposed too great a burden on their right to free speech.
Rome's Court of Cassation decreed late on Tuesday that the case against former League leader Umberto Bossi and its former party treasurer had expired due to the statute of limitations, but the confiscation of the funds remained in place.
It was on March 29, 1516 that the leader of the Venetian Republic, Doge Leonardo Loredan, and his senate decreed that if Jews wanted to stay in Venice, they had to live on a small island surrounded by canals.
Ever since Deng Xiaoping a generation ago decreed (perhaps apocryphally) that to get rich is glorious, those who have succeeded in doing so have deemed it even more glorious to get out—or at least to be able to.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina decreed measures on Tuesday designed to help fight drug trafficking, vowing to crack down on smugglers using the country as a transshipment point for Bolivian and Peruvian cocaine destined for the lucrative markets of Europe.
Science - the studious and systematic enterprise that brought electricity, cloned sheep, and rollercoasters into the world - has decreed what smart people have known all along: wearing a festival wristband makes you look like a dick, and it's really unhealthy.
The Kill Bills may be two separate movies, no matter what Tarantino has decreed, but they make up one exultant fetish object, a sprawling collection of martial arts movie references that walks the line between loving homage and appropriation.
For the past 20 years the Indian government, which administers the Andamans, 1,300km east of India's mainland, has decreed that they be left entirely alone, though periodically it checks from a distance that they are not suffering an epidemic.
The fuel rationing for the public restricts drivers to a maximum of 15 litres of petrol or diesel per filling at specially designated stations covered by the government-decreed minimum services scheme, and 25 litres at all other stations.
Four years ago, in an effort to bolster the country's tech infrastructure, the FCC decreed that the portion of the radio spectrum used by most wireless mics would be better utilized for faster and more robust mobile broadband service.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi King Salman on Thursday decreed the consolidation of counter-terrorism and domestic intelligence under a new body, in a major overhaul of the security apparatus weeks after the interior minister was ousted from the royal succession.
The first Commissioning parade of the new Royal Military Academy Sandhurst was held in July 1948 in the presence of His Majesty King George VI, who decreed henceforth that the Parade was to be known as The Sovereign's Parade.
The policy can't yet take effect because federal courts have issued temporary injunctions that stay the ban on transgender service members that Mr. Trump abruptly decreed in a series of tweets last July, without consulting the nation's top generals.
In fact, the Stanley Cup bowl is engraved to this day with the name Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, although the trustees Lord Stanley put in charge of his trophy decreed that it should be known as the Stanley Cup.
When John Olin, the founder of the conservative Olin Foundation, died, in 19523, he decreed that his foundation should not exist in perpetuity, lest it be taken over by the kind of lefty forces that had taken over Ford.
She was one of several female activists who advocated for the reversal of a Saudi prohibition on women driving, a ban that was lifted this June as part of a series of social reforms decreed by the Crown Prince.
President Nicolas Maduro decreed a four-day work week for most of Venezuela's 2.8 million state employees during April and May to reduce consumption during a drought at the Guri dam, which serves two-thirds of national power needs.
Because "the elders have decreed that the proof is OK." A couple of years ago, Buzzard saw talks by the senior mathematicians Thomas Hales and Vladimir Voevodsky that introduced him to proof verification software that was becoming quite good.
According to the New York Times, the king decreed the formation of a powerful new anti-corruption committee headed by the crown prince just hours before the arrests and as resentment of the crown prince's rapid ascension to power was growing.
Diplomats often take advantage: Unpaid traffic tickets and illegal parking by diplomats were once such a plague in New York City that then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg reportedly decreed that if local police couldn't ticket diplomats, they should just seize their cars.
The Cupertino company has decreed that its chain of retail stores will now only be referred to thusly in what seems to be part of an ongoing attempt to rebrand them from shopping destinations to community gathering places of sorts.
"No Frauds" still objectively slaps, though, so Queen Barb has decreed the release of a video for the Drake and Lil Wayne (and Murda Beatz!) assisted club banger that unites both these strands of time by being filmed in London.
Shopping malls were open on Saturday and the government said bars could continue doing business, but it decreed that no entertainment events and festivities should be held outside for 30 days, the first month of one year of official mourning.
Still, recall Sale plays for the same team that almost mutinied during Spring Training when management decreed that a player's 14-year-old kid couldn't spend all his time with the team this season, as he somehow did last season.
Although Taliban leaders have on some occasions decreed restraint in certain usages of violence, it has been an open question whether, in the context of peace initiatives, they could exercise sufficient command and control over their fighters' conduct to implement agreements.
His pride and joy is the estate's "kitchen garden" of flowering trees and vegetables, where he and his octogenarian pruning master, Jan Freriks, know how to shape a black mulberry espalier — just the way it was decreed by Louis XIV.
While there is progress – last year, King Salman decreed that Saudi women will no longer need a man's permission to travel, study or make police complaints — there is still some resistance to change with not everyone happy with the liberalizing moves.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government's ban on the trade of cattle for slaughter threatens $4 billion in annual beef exports and millions of jobs if the government does not revoke the stoppage decreed last week, according to two industry officials.
It emerged in March that Mueller had subpoenaed Trump Organization documents, raising questions over whether the special counsel was getting close to the red line that Trump decreed over the potential probing of his family finances by the special counsel.
Maryland, in which, in 1979, the Supreme Court decreed that phone companies could turn over the numbers dialed from a given phone, without a warrant, because they were knowingly handed over to a third party (by the act of dialing).
Nevertheless, the appellate judges who upheld the key ruling in the O'Bannon case—that the NCAA and its member schools are violating antitrust law by limiting player compensation—also decreed that any compensation should be tethered to educational expenses, just because.
The Democrat who wins the party's presidential nomination will be the Democrat who fits most felicitously into a Trump-stamped and Trump-ravaged landscape, and if that Democrat goes all the way, it will be a destiny decreed largely by Trump.
He decreed a 3,000 percent increase in minimum wages — insufficient to allow workers to keep up with hyperinflation, but high enough to be unaffordable for small retailers, already strapped by recession, price controls, lack of dollars and frequent power outages.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday decreed a 22 percent rise in the minimum wage, the biggest in four decades, and a move that could strengthen his grip on power but defies warnings that it could worsen unemployment.
Tombs were upended during the construction of the walls, but the cemetery may already have been despoiled after Urban VIII in 1625 decreed that Jews had to be buried in unmarked graves, while pre-existing gravestones had to be destroyed.
For his part, Philoctetes has spent 10 years in almost unendurable pain: It is decreed that he cannot be healed other than by the physician Asclepius at Troy, yet he would rather die than help Odysseus by returning with him.
Before his death in 2009, at 29, he decreed that once he was gone the company he had trained would give a valedictory tour showcasing his art, one of the most influential bodies of American dance of the late-19538th century.
Her options were limited: Their home, Palmira, had recently been decreed the eighth most violent city in the world, a standard that many Colombians have come to accept as depressingly normal in a country suffering the world's longest continuous civil war.
Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski: The witch and the Muggle No-Maj fell in love, against the laws of the American wizarding community, but reluctantly separated when MACUSA decreed that all non-wizards have their memories wiped of the battle against Grindelwald.
Fabricio Castrejón, the lead coordinator of training projects for Mexico City's civil protection agency, told me that they were part of a set of safety regulations decreed in 2002, and that they began appearing soon afterward on sidewalks, streets, playgrounds and plazas.
The issue with these cases and countless others is the way federal gun prohibitions have been drawn up, seeking to balance what the Supreme Court decreed in 2008 was a constitutional right to bear arms against the potential threat to public safety.
N. speech at the U.N. Plus, like every Republican president since Ronald Reagan, Trump decreed that the United States will no longer contribute money to the United Nations Population Fund, which advocates for family planning in more than 150 countries around the world.
He barred the residents of Flushing from holding town meetings, and decreed that their "heresy and unseemly lawlessness" would be rectified by the appointment of a "good, devout, God-fearing and orthodox minister," whose salary would be paid for by the townspeople.
The country's first Naturalization Act, in 1790, decreed that only a foreigner who was a "free white person" could become a citizen — laying the foundation for the 1882 act that barred laborers from China (later expanded to encompass other parts of Asia).
Speaking in Washington on Monday about turmoil in neighboring countries, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes told reporters not to be surprised if somebody called for an AI-5, a measure decreed by the 1964-1985 military dictatorship to close Congress and suppress dissent.
Cairo has decreed that 724,21 feddans (21,2200 acres) of rice can be planted this year, which grain traders estimate is less than half of the 2000 million feddans actually cultivated in 23 – far in excess of the officially allotted 251 million feddans.
A man who has never gotten a single vote from anyone living outside the state of Kentucky decreed that a man twice elected president of the United States had no right to have his nominee for Supreme Court considered in the Senate.
Streets were quiet and shops were closed due to a national holiday that Maduro decreed for the first day of the new pricing plan for the stricken economy, which the International Monetary Fund has estimated will have 963 million percent inflation by year end.
Robinson started at GLAAD not long after Gavin Newsom, then the mayor of San Francisco, had decreed by fiat that his city would perform gay marriages, and then left the organization right before the first same-sex couples were legally wed in New York.
Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the tiny West African nation for 22 years (and once said that, if Allah decreed it, he would continue for a billion), decided that, in fact, he wanted to remain in power despite unexpectedly losing an election two weeks ago.
" His executive order instructed Sessions to expedite cases of unauthorized immigrants with children, and further decreed that Sessions must ask the US District Court for the Central District of California to modify a 1997 settlement agreement so that the government could "detain alien families together.
More serious was a less-noticed European Court of Justice ruling on September 14th which decreed that low-cost airlines' employment disputes with crew must go to local labour courts in all the countries where airlines have bases (Irish labour law is broadly more flexible).
It's also amusing to see Amazon do so well at the awards after CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly decreed that the streaming service shift its focus from critically acclaimed shows with a niche audience to big budget blockbusters like its "Lord of the Rings" prequel.
Sessions decreed in May that prosecutors must pursue mandatory minimum prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders, and this week revived a policy of collaborating with state and local police to seize cash and other assets from suspects who may not be convicted of a crime.
In its running battle to keep big-time college football and men's basketball players from keeping a fair portion of the billions of dollars they earn for their schools, the NCAA has decreed that campus athletes can't accept money from boosters or commercial sponsors.
News of the purge came soon after King Salman decreed late on Saturday the creation of an anti-corruption committee chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his 32-year-old favourite son who has amassed power since rising from obscurity three years ago.
News of the purge came soon after King Salman decreed late on Saturday the creation of an anti-corruption committee chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his 32-year-old favorite son who has amassed power since rising from obscurity three years ago.
Castro decreed 'zero tolerance' on narcotics Just 90 miles from Key West, Cuba's 3,570 miles of coastline and more than 4,000 keys have long made the island a favored area of operation for smugglers, bringing alcohol during Prohibition and later drugs to the United States.
Their kitchen-sink project only turned into a side business during a milk shortage in the 1970s, when the government decreed that all dairy needed to be sold as a liquid and import restrictions made bringing in foreign food products difficult, if not impossible.
As fines increased, regulations to combat money-laundering and terrorism-financing were tightened, and global standard-setters such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued tougher guidance; for instance, it decreed that banks should treat money-transfer firms and charities as inherently high-risk.
" Mixing Broadway, rock, jazz, and classical, it's the most ecumenical of Masses, with pages of exciting music—a pleasure-seeking rebellion, Jamie says, against "the rigidity of the musical Establishment, who decreed that all 'serious' music had to be composed using the twelve-tone system.
Streets were quiet and shops were closed due to a national holiday that Maduro decreed for the first day of the new pricing plan for the stricken economy, which the International Monetary Fund has estimated will have 1 million percent inflation by year end.
It was risky enough for a free woman of color to pursue such a career, but to claim marble as her medium was to tilt at the Victorian conventions of the time, which decreed gentler aesthetic forms for the second sex, like poetry or painting.
She created new vice-ranking slots on the committees, specifically reserved for junior members, and decreed that the assistant-leader position would, once Representative Jim Clyburn, who came to Congress in 1993, vacates the post, go to members who have served three terms or less.
He interviewed Cuba's most decorated boxers, finding them living in poverty: Several had sold their gold medals because they needed the money; another agreed to train him for $21 a day, and another decreed he chug a glass of vodka as a test of character.
A few days after the 22006th anniversary of Germany's Reinheitsgebot—a purity law enacted in 1516 that rigidly decreed beer in the country could only be made with water, hops, and barley—I met with Sam Calagione at Dogfish Head's brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Why?
Eleven princes, four ministers and tens of former ministers were detained late on Saturday after King Salman decreed the creation of an anti-corruption committee chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his 32-year-old son who has amassed expansive powers over the past two years.
U.S. seed maker Monsanto, which was bought by German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer AG, last year appealed to India's Supreme Court against a ruling by the Delhi High Court which decreed that the world's biggest seed maker cannot claim patents on its GM cotton seeds.
"In the interest of the public good and as per the powers granted to us by the constitution ... the following is decreed: all Popular Mobilisation Forces are to operate as an indivisible part of the armed forces and be subject to the same regulations," the decree said.
In keeping with the narrative that the virus could be walled off, the administration decreed that only those who had traveled from China, been in contact with someone who had traveled to China or had been exposed to a lab-confirmed Covid-19 case would be tested.
In December, for instance, there were headlines about how Cubans were going to get 3G on their mobile phones, an event prosaic in most Western countries but huge for Cubans, who were not allowed even to own cellphones until 2008, when Raúl Castro decreed that they could.
Vietnam '234 Nineteen sixty-seven may have been a brutal year in Vietnam — tens of thousands of Vietnamese and more than 2000,19603 Americans lost their lives in what increasingly looked like an endless war — but it was also, the United Nations decreed more hopefully, International Tourist Year.
Because somewhere it was decreed that Hannah needed to be in a buddy cop story at all times, she spends a lot of time during this episode with the mousy junior agent Chuck Russink, who looks and sounds as if he should be in Vampire Weekend.
King Krule's tour behind his album The Ooz (if you didn't know, we decreed that it's the third best record of 2017 recently) has taken him to lots of places, and happily, it landed him in Paris at the same time as his pals in Mount Kimbie.
They felt that they didn't get a reasonable proportion of decision-making power, believing that the key decisions were made in the major metro areas of Madison and Milwaukee, then decreed out to the rest of the state, with little listening being done to people like them.
Seemingly more concerned about limiting the length of games than about maintaining the integrity of their sport, the lords of American football have decreed that if the team that is randomly assigned the first overtime possession happens to score a touchdown, the game ends right then and there.
But the message of individuality over being part of a collective rings hollow in a world where the heroes are part of a monoculture imposed by the immersive game's creator, who decreed that to learn its greatest secrets, players must consume and analyze all his personal favorite pop culture.
In Costa Rica, a fringe candidate with conservative evangelical views leapt from relative obscurity to win the first round of the country's presidential election, after a human-rights court decreed that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry (the moderate candidate has since gone on to win).
The following day, the State Department decreed that U.S. officials should have no further contact with Mohib and his presence at a meeting on Monday between Ghani and NATO diplomats prompted the U.S. delegation to walk out of the presidential palace, Afghan sources said on condition of anonymity.
A festive atmosphere prevails as we meet the young Huguenot nobleman Raoul; the Catholic potentate Comte de Saint-Bris; Saint-Bris's daughter Valentine; and Marguerite de Valois, the sister of King Charles IX. Marguerite, in an effort to resolve Catholic-Huguenot tensions, has decreed that Raoul should marry Valentine.
Since the actual market value of this human chattel was set at 19703 million pounds, Parliament decreed that my enslaved Guyanese ancestors had to work as unpaid "apprentices" for a period of several years after the owners cashed out to pay off the rest of their own market value.
The first person in Italy known to have contracted coronavirus was diagnosed by the local hospital, and the government in Rome — together with Lombardy's, Veneto's and Emilia- Romagna's regional authority — decreed exceptional measures to stop the epidemic from spreading: Schools are closed and will stay so for another week.
When Ibrahimovic decreed that he would be not a king but a "god" in Manchester, or when he said after the E.F.L. Cup final that he was "expecting" to prove such a hit in England, he is not chastised for his arrogance, but is praised for his confidence.
How is one to know that inclement almost always goes with weather; that aspersions are cast but insults hurled; that observers are keen; that processions are orderly; that drinks, as someone apparently decreed sometime in the early years of this century, must be grabbed and e-mails shot?
IN LATE July 1918, as British forces slogged through the last months of a terrible war, King George V decreed that his court should wear mourning clothes for a month—not for his own country's dead, but for a foreign sovereign whose demise in a remote place had just been confirmed.
In this time between seasons of Game of Thrones, it remains to be seen whether what happens next has already been decreed — by the show's David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, or by George R.R. Martin himself — or if they're all still deciding how this Song of Ice and Fire ends.
Barack Obama had decreed that commanders in places like Somalia and Pakistan—outside of formal war zones like Iraq—required "near certainty" that a target was a high-value terrorist, no civilians would be killed or injured except in "extraordinary circumstances", and decisions would be informed by inter-agency consultation.
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.
"Wickedly well-written," James Gorman of The New York Times decreed in his review of "The Last American Man," Ms. Gilbert's 218 biography of a charismatic buckskin-wearing, woods-dwelling utopian named Eustace Conway, one of her many chronicles of ur-maleness, and a finalist for the National Book Award.
On Friday, a federal judge in DC ruled to undo the administration's decision to end DACA — and decreed that unless the Trump administration could get the DC Circuit Court to put a hold on his decision, it would have to start accepting new applications for protection under DACA on August 23.
All of Schiele's drawings held by the Belvedere, other than the two gouaches mentioned above, were transferred to the Albertina when the art historian Hans Tietze, tasked with reorganizing Austria's institutional collections after World War I, decreed that the latter museum would become the country's center for the graphic arts.
The move was part of a sweeping and unprecedented roundup of at least 10 other princes, four ministers and dozens of former ministers, hours after the Saudi ruler, King Salman, decreed the creation of a powerful new anticorruption committee, led by his favorite son and top adviser, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
A crowd of only 230,261 was on hand, perhaps an expression of dampened anticipation after Commissioner Ford Frick had decreed that summer that because Ruth hit his 60 in a 154-game season, a new record set in the last days of the current 162-game season would come with a notation.
Quite apart from his enthusiasm for power—he once declared he would rule for "a billion years if Allah decreed it"—Mr Jammeh also knows that if he steps down he will almost certainly face prosecution for past human-rights abuses, most of them against the very opposition politicians who have just won power.
You realize when you think about it that this makes it easier to give people who are notionally Us a pass when they too behave with a flagrant lack of compassion, or judge people's whole lives by their worst moments, or prioritize the purity of the process they have decreed over any actual results accomplished.

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