Mr Djotodia has said he would legislate by decree until holding elections in three years' time.
And Mr Obama's administration will probably hesitate to ram through dramatic emissions cuts by decree, for fear of appearing undemocratic.
Still pending are some tough measures to tighten pension rules and trade-union health schemes, which may be imposed by decree.
He adds that he will ask President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to introduce it by decree, daring Congress to vote it down.
Many gun-design changes, Mr Vincent says, have come about not by decree but by the threat of liability suits brought by individuals.
Legal activists want the next government to restore the judges by decree.
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If, on the other hand, the price is set, or suppressed, or sustained by decree, the information content in the price disappears.
Mr Allawi can rule by decree, provided that all three members of the presidency (a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurd) assent.
This raised opposition suspicions that Sheikh Sabah might try to change the electoral law by decree - which he did, on 19 October.
Some of the fiscal measures were enacted by decree by Mr de la Rua after he failed to gain support for them in Congress.
General Musharraf could refuse to concede the opposition's demands, suspend or dismiss parliament and try to carry on the business of government by decree.
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He reorganised the tax system to make provincial governors more dependent on the presidency, had frequent recourse to rule by decree, and nationalised some businesses.
Michel Djotodia declared on 25 March that he would rule by decree after his Seleka rebel group stormed CAR's capital, Bangui, ending President Bozize's decade-long rule.
The fragility of Egyptian democracy reflects the fact that party life was kick-started by decree in the 1970s, after 25 years in which all opposition parties were banned.
Fiat means by decree, and under the gold standard, a given currency is forced on the population by law, regardless of what anyone desires, needs, or judges to be best.
Since he dissolved parliament two years ago, Abdullah has governed his kingdom by decree, promulgating 160 laws, which will remain on the statute books until parliament gets around to debating them.
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The order had amounted to a second coup by Mr Musharraf, enabling him to rule by decree, sack troublesome judges such as Mr Chaudhry and become president while remaining army chief.
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Even his decision to reverse by decree Mr Sarkozy's raising of the retirement age from 60 to 62 for those who started work young has gone unchallenged, since he campaigned for it.
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Mohammed Hayef, a former opposition MP, wrote on Twitter afterwards that the emir had told them that he would accept a ruling by the Constitutional Court on the amendments he made by decree.
As organisations today become increasingly flatter, and traditional career paths become a thing of the past, opportunities for leadership will emerge more and more from the ground up, rather than by decree from the top down.
After the fall of Mr Milosevic and his government in October 2000, Mr Ojdanic lost his ministerial position, and on 30 December 2000, he was retired from military service by decree from the new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica.
"I think it turns on whether the appellate division feels that the mayor has gone too far in ruling by decree in bypassing City Council, " said Rick Hills, a New York University law professor who has been following the case.
The appeal likely will turn on whether a higher court "feels that the mayor has gone too far in ruling by decree in bypassing City Council, " said Rick Hills, a New York University law professor who has been following the case.
Now, it is clear why: He believes it is possible and desirable to link the dollar and the euro by bureaucratic fiat (pun most certainly intended) simply by having the U.S. Treasury fix the exchange rate between the dollar and the euro by decree.
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Mr Depardieu was granted Russian citizenship by a decree signed by Mr Putin on 3 January.
There is a certain charm about a place where islands are created by council decree rather than by volcanic eruption or coastal erosion but perhaps the last word belongs with Olivier Mesnil, a French tourist who was staying on Island Roy when I paid a visit.
The criteria -- the ingredients and how it is made -- for this baguette tradition (which is different from an ordinary baguette) are laid out in detail by a decree that was signed by the French prime minister in 1993.
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