"If direct rule had not been introduced one or two things would have happened, " he says.
It is expected, however, that Dr Reid would reintroduce direct rule before the assembly collapsed.
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In July the Caribbean Community said meekly that a new election would be better than direct rule.
After Britain imposed direct rule on Ireland in 1800, the problems of Ireland became the problems of Britain.
Direct rule was imposed on St Maarten in 1992, after a financial scandal.
The move to end 27 years of direct rule, is one of the key parts of the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.
Aubrey Butterfield Junior, Chair of the Providenciales Chamber of Commerce, was one of those who publicly advocated for Britain to introduce direct rule.
In March of this year, direct rule minister David Hanson had been wrestling with a decision about 96 acres at Ballee in Ballymena.
If both houses of the national Parliament ratify direct rule in Bihar, the government will dissolve the state assembly and hold new elections.
She is the fourth direct rule education minister in three-and-a-half years.
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But suddenly Congress decided to vote against direct rule, making ratification impossible in the upper house, where the coalition has barely 35% of the seats.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has issued a stark warning that he is ready to walk away from the peace process if there is a return to direct rule.
He was speaking after a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson in Belfast, as efforts intensified to restart talks following the re-imposition of direct rule at the weekend.
In a statement the Department for Regional Development said the secretary of state has ruled out privatisation under direct rule and this will be up to the devolved administration to decide.
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It had issued a decree sacking the Bihar state government for its failure to stem the slaughter of low-caste labourers by private armies of landowners, and imposed direct rule from Delhi.
Direct rule has been in place since that date.
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Although parades remain the responsibility of direct rule ministers, the Stormont parties have been struggling to design a "new and improved framework" for marching ever since the Hillsborough agreement on justice in February 2010.
On Thursday, the Northern Ireland Executive is due to meet for the first time and will begin to take political responsibility for most of the departments currently dealt with by Northern Ireland Office direct rule ministers.
If the powersharing arrangement collapses in the days after Monday's debate, Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid could return Northern Ireland to direct rule from Westminster and start a review of the workings of the Good Friday Agreement.
MPs, who voted by a majority of more than 300 to approve the bill, were told by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson that the Good Friday Agreement was the nearest thing to a "perfect settlement", but that reimposing direct rule from London might be the only way to save it.
It was also in response to a former policy that applied to women in the Army called direct risk rule, and that was proved to be problematic during the Gulf War.
Indian laws allow an elected federal government to recommend the dismissal of a state government, but leaves the power to impose direct federal rule on the president, the country's constitutional head.
"The time has come to rescind the direct combat exclusion rule for women and eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to service, " Gen.
The TRAIN Act would nullify the Utility MACT Rule and direct EPA to adopt less burdensome regulations to control power plant HAP emissions.
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Indeed, dark pools are the direct result of an SEC rule allowing the private National Market System to be formed.
The proposed rule is the direct result of not having such a plan in place when Lehman Brothers failed in 2008.
Conservative central bankers worry that it would still break the rule that bans direct purchases by the ECB, in spirit at least.
Although he cannot definitely rule out a direct effect by the pollution on the birds' metabolism of the yellow pigment, or its incorporation into their feathers, the correlation between a shortage of caterpillars and faded plumage is strong evidence of a link between pollution, diet and bird colour.
This lengthy rule approval process is something Direct Edge will now be a part of as two new exchanges.
As a rule, the idea of direct subscriptions terrifies the cable industry.
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