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Boards are prevented from setting executive compensation at levels which will promote the greatest profitability and are instead hamstrung in their salary-setting by government edict or convoluted voting processes.
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Given the finite nature of police resources, the mechanisms by which security and police protection is afforded cannot be dictated by the edict of a court or the retrospective conclusions of a jury.
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Fixing the exchange rate between the dollar and euro by bureaucratic edict would be a huge mistake, like anchoring two sinking aircraft carriers together hoping the buoyancy of the two is greater than the sum of the individual compartments.
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Al-Ghnaimi said one of her female cousins who studies at the Khan Younis school defies the edict by not wearing a robe, though she does cover her hair with a scarf.
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"Even if the Court has jurisdiction over Armstrong's remaining claims, the Court finds they are best resolved through the well-established system of international arbitration, by those with expertise in the field, rather than by the unilateral edict of a single nation's courts, " stated Sparks, a judge in the U.S. district court based out of Austin, Texas.
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Her father, a judo referee who taught Shaherkani judo, has been nearly constantly by her side, often with his arm wrapped around her shoulder, partly due to a Saudi edict that she could only participate in the Games if constantly accompanied by a man.
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But Finance Minister Lee Hun Jai admits that this edict has been ignored - as demonstrated by Hyundai's recent family feud over succession.
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Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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In 1685, King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, depriving the Protestant Huguenots of all religious and civil liberties granted them by Henry IV in 1598.
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