Religiosity, paradoxically, flourished in England and America precisely because it did not emanate from the edicts of absolute monarchs.
As could be expected by our modern understanding of economics, the edicts mainly resulted in painful shortages of critical commodities.
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Further, the question hardens into an indictment when juxtaposed against the published legal edicts of the classical and contemporary Shariah authorities.
Strikingly higher minimum-wage edicts have become the rage in emerging nations, with Thailand extending its hike to the rural regions.
Some threaten to scrap Mr Bremer's edicts as soon as he goes.
However, religious edicts are often interpreted as a prohibition of female drivers.
Complying with President Hamid Karzai's edicts to stop growing poppy "was explicitly seen as conditional on rapid compensation and rural development", say the authors.
But whereas so far the emphasis has been on advice and encouragement, the government and its agencies may soon have to start issuing edicts.
It will be under strict instructions to cut payments to Medicare providers, regardless of the consequences, with limited ability for Congress to overrule its edicts.
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Julius Caesar, in one of the edicts changing Roman law after his takeover, gives the first example of allowing bankers to confiscate land in lieu of loan payments.
However, religious edicts are often interpreted as prohibiting female drivers.
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The Lords often scrutinises legislation that the Commons has not had time to look at (it has carved out an important role examining edicts from the European Commission).
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For edicts to carry divine imprimatur, they must be unambiguously stated in the Koran or sunna (the body of literature that includes the sayings and biography of the prophet).
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It is not at all unimaginable that the federal government will soon tie all medical licensure to accepting the new edicts, as has already been contemplated in Massachusetts by state legislators.
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Critics who dismissed Thai Rak Thai's platform as cheap populism were missing the point: in a country used to receiving policy edicts from on high, a spot of populism was no bad thing.
Bank of America's decision last month to lay off 30, 000 employees is a direct consequence of various Congressional edicts limiting how much the bank can charge merchants or how it can handle delinquent borrowers.
Even though President Obama is obviously no champion of constitutional separation of powers edicts, particularly as they relate to government executive and legislative branches, he may encounter some problems with this congressional circumvention strategy.
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Exacerbating such worries, Egypt's ruling military authorities had issued a series of edicts that seemed to consolidate their own powers at the expense of any elected body, after the abrupt dissolution of the Brotherhood-dominated parliament by a recent dubious court ruling.
Such challenges are likely to pale, however, by comparison with the edicts handed down by multilateral tribunals whose deciding votes are, in every instance, selected by international bureaucrats (in the case of one arbitral panel, by the UN Secretary General himself).
Perhaps we are replacing 14-hour-unhappy-unfulfilled days at the office with the same number of hours when working for ourselves, but most of us realize there is so much more we can do better on our own without having to put up with bosses, corporate edicts and designated days off.
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And, far from being able to render definitive judgments on law of the sea matters like those raised by the Exxon Valdez case, our justices may hereafter be reduced to serving as little more than bailiffs for their international betters, enforcing edicts handed down from Hamburg or The Hague.
Another interesting tidbit in the interview highlights the fact that one of new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's edicts has been to significantly reduce the amount of time between a product's announcement and its release, which might be the driving force behind his decision to push the introduction of Nokia's first MeeGo products into 2011.
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