Oil exports have stopped since the war and uncertainty remains over who in Iraq has legal authority to sign new export deals.
In a statement the authority said its refusal to sign the document would "in no way" prevent the school becoming an academy on 1 September.
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Though the unity government under him is being run, so far quite passably, by an (ex-Communist) Socialist, Bashkim Fino, and the southern rebels show little sign of submitting to central authority, Mr Berisha may have taken a new lease of life.
The Egyptian authorities resealed their country's border with the Gaza Strip , but failed to persuade Hamas to sign up to a previous agreement whereby Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Fatah, a rival Palestinian group, would oversee the border and crossing point.
The seal was originally used as a signature or sign of authority, but it came to be used by all social classes and in much of Asia.
His administration's decision to deport Hamas deserter and Israeli counter-terror operative Mosab Hassan Yousef to the Palestinian Authority where he will be killed is the latest sign of their support for radical Islam.
The authority hopes the latest figures could be a sign that those moves are starting to have an effect.
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The owners of a music shop in the centre of Shrewsbury have used a sign in its window to launch an attack on the local authority.
Along with that carrot, the states are hoping for a stick: authority from Congress to force catalog and Internet merchants without physical presence in their states to sign up to collect simplified taxes.
If so, he asks them to sign a form agreeing to electronically communicate about health matters and giving him authority to discuss medical issues over email.
Indeed, even if the outgoing Bush administration and the lame duck Olmert government manage to sign a peace treaty with the increasingly powerless remnants of the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, that achievement is liable to be quickly eclipsed by violence that will follow the signing ceremony.
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The two main pillars on which the Yugoslav leader's authority rests docile official media and a loyal police force willing to beat demonstrators show no sign of crumbling.
That means by the time either Barack Obama or John McCain moves into the White House, most of the government's bailout actions will be in place, the executive branch will have unprecedented authority to deal with the financial problem, and Congress will likely send the president another economic stimulus bill to sign.
But the Snowdonia National Park Authority, which only has the right to make observations on the plan, has asked for a smaller less intrusive sign.
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As anticipated, several countries pushed to expand the UN's authority to regulate the internet and the US, along with many of its allies, have said they will not sign the updated treaty.
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Congress expressly denied IRS statutory authority to assess additional tax from taxpayers after 3 years from the date the taxpayer complied with his statutory legal duty to sign and file his non-fraudulent tax return with IRS, under penalty of perjury, with payment of the tax calculated by the taxpayer against his worldwide gross taxable income (WGTI).
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