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The ombudsman commission was established under a presidential decree in 2000 in a bid to help promote good governance.
Next Thursday, he will sign a presidential decree on the Anticorruption Action Plan.
The Carolingian style was developed under the rule of Charlemagne, when, in 789 there was a decree which called for the revision of Church books.
By decree from on high, corps and division commanders could not employ more than two platoons in offensive action.
He said he is seeking sponsors for a motion in the legislature to make the issuance of an emergency decree.
On 3rd April the Mayor of Moscow signed a decree allotting 5 acres of land for a Hare Krishna temple in Moscow.
Teotihuacan is a UNESCO World Heritage site and is protected by a presidential decree.
However, opposition groups outside the country claim that forced labor continues in the country despite the official decree.
The disciplining economic feedback mechanism of currency devaluation and capital flight was suspended by decree during the Asian crisis.
A presidential decree on the composition of each partner's stake has yet to be issued.
Their final decree came through in October 2002, but by January 2003 they were a couple again.
The divorce petition was not defended, and on 14 March 2000, her husband was granted a decree absolute of divorce.
The president could also declare a state of emergency and rule by emergency decree.
The government, made up of 16 ministers and seven secretaries of state was officially announced overnight in a presidential decree.
In March 1999, the High Court refused a decree of nullity to a man whose wife had an affair with her employer shortly after the marriage.
Thus, the decree of unpardonableness against the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit is eternal.
If the proper procedures were not followed, you may be entitled to a nullity decree.
I note that the Husband did not make any allegation of non-consummation in his cross petition nor did he seek a decree of nullity.
But today, the world is peopled by intolerant religions that still decree that their God is the only true one.
With the governor's decree, and the state of Florida's law, this is a clear case between how far the state can go to intrude itself in your life.
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Examples from Classical Literature
By a later decree, this pension is declared a fixed charge against the salary of the chief pilot and his successors.
A decree of Prince Philip, in 1553, was its gis and was constantly invoked.
According to the constitution this decree had to be countersigned by a minister.
But it may be said that the letter of the Duke of Cadore, if not itself a decree, is evidence that there is a rescinding decree.
The Council pronounced a decree that no mercy should be shown to the simoniacal and married clergy.
And if it were the God's decree that he should die, what could be the use of rebelling against it?
The king promised on his word to abide firmly and stably by what they should decree.
This is the statutory law, but the wife by obtaining a decree in chancery may possess all the rights of a femme sole.
Without more discussion Bildad reaffirms what the unchangeable decree, as he knows it, certainly is.
And he was so glad that this decree was inexorable, that its inscrutability did not trouble him at all.
A written decree of an Ottoman sultan is also termed an irade, the word being taken from the Arab.
This decree of the Senate was submitted to the acceptation of the French people.
It seemed more than a decree of chance that their fates should be intertwined.
It was pretended that the Academy of Arcadians were to adjudge and decree the crown.
If so he was also an evil-doer who, by my decree, died in banishment in the land of Kush.
Then Lahr collapsed and began to pray while the decree for their execution was read to them.
History is the final tribunal which will decree to everyone what he has deserved.
How this was arranged I do not know, but the decree nisi and the decree absolute were granted without any difficulties arising.
In Scotland there is no decree nisi, no decree absolute, and no intervention by the King's Proctor.
They were to be married the instant the injured husband obtained his decree absolute.
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