And lo, it all came to pass, even though there's no federal edict to do this.
Point No. 2 is that Mayer clearly has issued this edict to send a signal.
The edict has been routinely ignored and continues to be ignored to this day.
The front's first proclamation included a fatwa, or religious edict, permitting the killing of US civilians.
When it came to the pared-down look, what she said or did was like a royal edict.
The BBC's Rayhan Demytrie says the interior ministry became the first government body to follow the edict.
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Crematoria have proved particularly rich pickings since a 1995 edict that encouraged local authorities to sell them.
On May 10th, when the new edict came into effect, the newspaper thought of a new promotional gimmick.
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In another development, Iraqi-based Ayatollah Ali Sastani, a top Shiite authority, issued an edict Tuesday on the conflict.
The resounding edict of The Efficient Market Thesis is that market prices reflect the sum of all information.
"We don't expect the U.S. economic embargo to go away overnight or by royal edict, " says one high-level official.
If a significant portion of society ever lost faith in its value, it would no longer be accepted despite government edict.
Morsy issued an edict in late November declaring his decisions immune from judicial review until the holding of the constitutional referendum.
The College of Arms said nothing could be done because the edict was part of the Local Government Act of 1972.
Activist Peter Tatchell, who helped organise the demonstration, claimed the pontiff ordered a cover-up in a 2001 edict to Catholic Bishops worldwide.
In 301AD, the Roman Emporer Diocletian issued the edict of maximum prices, which set prices on a bewilderingly large array of goods.
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On Monday, Morsy met with members of Egypt's highest judicial body, the Supreme Judicial Council, which has been critical of his edict.
The edict especially targeted the 800, 000 Jews who had never converted, and gave them four months to pack up and get out.
About that time, the Taliban issued a formal edict, which covered her home in Pakistan's Swat Valley, banning all girls from schools.
Since the Iranians, theoretically, will get only transit revenues, the Americans have now decided that the deal does not transgress their edict.
If governments and international organizations such as the G-20 attempt to force the stabilization of these two currencies through edict, it will fail.
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling all Jews unwilling to convert to Christianity from Spanish soil.
But Finance Minister Lee Hun Jai admits that this edict has been ignored - as demonstrated by Hyundai's recent family feud over succession.
The amount of time and effort wasted in that organization trying to comply with this edict over the next few years was monumental.
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Since there is no religious edict, or fatwa, banning laughing and whistling, the group has to acknowledge that the activity is perfectly legal.
The Iranian media followed up Ahmadinejad's edict with a campaign claiming that Esther and Mordechai were responsible for the murder of 170, 000 Iranians.
That devoting more attention to security required an edict from Bill Gates rather than market pressure from dissatisfied customers only illustrates this point.
Another company edict was that no one in sales could take a vacation in the last month of each quarter, when deals typically close.
It means we can quit or forge any coalition, disobey any international edict, act with near impunity, and no one can do much about it.
Bigotry and hate toward Jews on the Arab side has masqueraded as religious edict, and then morphed into the sheer evil of indiscriminate suicide bombings.
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