| Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time. |
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| Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee. |
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| Although government clerics often issue edicts against terror, the bulk of the government's effort has been security-related. |
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| Ashoka is famous for the edicts he ordered to be carved on rocks and pillars throughout his kingdom. |
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| Clerics issued religious edicts against the British when they invaded Iraq during the First World War. |
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| It is easy to issue laws and edicts, particularly when there is no need to gain the consent of elected or appointed representatives. |
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| To curb overheating, regulators have produced a blizzard of edicts in the last fortnight, and made a few high profile arrests. |
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| So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders. |
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| How skillfully the timetable must be worked out, and how unwaveringly its edicts must be carried through, adds up to the fine art of railroading. |
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| So, despite these edicts, new apartment houses continued to be built five or six storeys high. |
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| Each time the religious institution issues custom-made edicts for political purposes, it loses credibility. |
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| In practice, dictionaries take a middle course between wholehearted descriptivism and prescriptive edicts. |
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| The bureaucracy in Beijing issues edicts on mine safety but does not provide the necessary funds. |
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| Issuing edicts founded on the false premise that whatever the bishop declares to be a mortal sin is a mortal sin is not teaching. |
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| One venerable conjecture was that it began as a contemptuous reference to papal edicts known as bulls. |
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| And would the pope issue edicts blaming the United States for bringing the whole tragedy upon itself? |
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| However, much more paradoxical edicts were issued under the totalitarian regime. |
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| The edicts of designers to their perfumers make for fabled anecdotes. |
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| The curule aediles, who were the magistrates responsible for the care and supervision of the markets, also issued edicts. |
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| Sure, my son can ask for a reason after I issue one of my edicts. |
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| In the face of constant threats, Dr. Samar defies the ruling Taliban's edicts that deny women and girls their basic rights. |
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| Apart from royal edicts on certain general issues, the king's domains were subject to no law and no administrative practice common to them all without exception. |
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| Having sung praises to this young man who is soon to be elevated to the Bench, I believe it's equally important to put his recent edicts under scrutiny. |
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| In matters where we interact with society, we must agree to put the law of the land first, and not be guided by religious edicts or interpretations. |
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| We believe that more good will be accomplished by applying the Golden Rule in all phases of life than by any number of government edicts. |
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| As for their edicts, the khaps, he said, issue fines or call for social boycotts, and also act as arbiters on local crimes. |
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| These days police officers seem to spend much of their time plucking the low-hanging fruit afforded by motorists or minor transgressors of petty government edicts. |
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| Although in Kabul many women and girls have started school, in more remote areas of the country, the Taliban edicts are still in practice. |
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| All we've been doing is getting edicts from above, and the chief edict-maker has now moved off to Ottawa. |
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| With political power in hand, the clerics passed regressive edicts. |
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| But these are also just the latest in a long line of green edicts at Rideau, including printing all brochures on environmentally-friendly paper. |
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| The reference illustrated here is a collection of ordinances and edicts issued in the Netherlands during the mid-sixteenth century. |
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| On 15 September of the same year, Afonso V nullified all the laws and edicts approved under the regency. |
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| The edicts of the Lithuanian King Mindaugas is the prime example of the literature of this kind. |
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| Israel's supreme judges with their fossilised traditions were shocked into wide-eyed astonishment at the sight of mere Galilean fishermen addressing the court with the confidence of kings issuing edicts. |
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| The edicts of Ashoka are thus a prime example of the value of inscriptions for historiographic dating and constitute a fixed record unparallelled in ancient Indian tradition. |
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| They believe more good will be accomplished by inducting the Golden Rule into all phases of Canadian life than by any number of government edicts. |
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| In the face of threats to her own safety, Dr. Samar has defied the Taliban's edicts that deny women and girls their basic rights to education, employment, mobility and medical care. |
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| At this point, however, epigraphy makes a unique contribution in the form of the first authentic and datable historical documents from India, the edicts of Bindusara's son and successor Ashoka. |
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| On the one hand, it is not up to the executive branch to issue edicts to the legislative branch with regard to the provisions of the law, as some partners have called upon the Head of State to do. |
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| But reform of their terms of service is overdue. Ministers have earned some unpopularity by concentrating power in Whitehall, and through the relentless edicts they have issued. |
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| Although the government wants to close less efficient smelters to save energy, local officials, keen to preserve growth and jobs, are slow to follow its edicts. |
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| We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our Web site. |
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| Supranational edicts may appear to be an easy option, but the centralised unaccountable power they contribute, directive by unmandated directive, is not just their sting in the tail but their principal awful effect. |
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| Along with the royal edicts and ordinances of the Governor General, the Custom of Paris was the main source of legislation in New France until the British conquest. |
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| It is because it is founded on these great principles that the recommendation edicts the directing principles concerning the enforcement of decisions and the agents responsible for enforcing them. |
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| Iran renounced nuclear weapons not only because of its contractual obligations under the NPT, but also due to its historical background and religious edicts. |
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| Some forced widows to remarry, through religious or state edicts. |
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| Having a personal interest in law, he presided at public trials, and issued up to twenty edicts a day. |
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| He issued coinage and a number of edicts reorganizing Gaul's system of provinces. |
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| The few surviving Merovingian edicts are almost entirely concerned with settling divisions of estates among heirs. |
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| In 391 and 392 he issued a series of edicts essentially banning pagan religion. |
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| The Hongwu emperor issued many edicts forbidding Mongol practices and proclaiming his intention to purify China of barbarian influence. |
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| His court limited government spending and prohibited nobles and troops from abusing civilians or issuing edicts without authorization. |
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| The divisions among Sephardim and their descendants today are largely a result of the consequences of the Royal edicts of expulsion. |
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| In response, the Crown enacted the Bourbon Reforms, a series of edicts that increased taxes and partitioned the Viceroyalty. |
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| Thus the belief in the Council's strong edicts regarding textual intelligibility became to characterize the development of sacred church music. |
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| For example the Israelite Sabbatical Year has antecedents in the Akkadian mesharum edicts granting periodic relief to the poor. |
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| Man is perfectible, but only if he submits to the expert assistance of the state, using the edicts laid down by the Emperor of Ideology. |
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| Another one of his edicts mentions the titles of several Dhamma texts, establishing the existence of a written Buddhist tradition at least by the time of the Maurya era. |
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| The issue of textual intelligibility did not make its way into the final edicts of the 22nd session but were only featured in preliminary debates. |
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| They also transgressed the established oligarchy by advancing unelected individuals to magisterial office, and by substituting magisterial edicts for popular legislation. |
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| These laws had, as the other modern constitutions, preeminence over other laws, and they could not be contradicted by mere decrees or edicts of the king. |
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| One of the more famous edicts concerned the status of sick slaves. |
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| Though the sovereign's edicts may well be arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute government as the only alternative to the terrifying anarchy of a state of nature. |
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| The European Union may be able to establish common regulations among its member countries, because it does thing by edicts, but enforcement will be a problem, Csiszar said. |
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| The element of autonomy was not formalised in the time of the Republic, but was conceded by the State to the responsa of the jurists, and to the edicts of the praetors. |
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