Mubarak made extensive use of those emergency powers in his time at the helm.
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Six months ago, Congress voted to give Mr Cavallo emergency powers over the economy.
Using emergency powers, Morsy set the curfew from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Although he has never quite said it outright, Mr Wahid has also flirted with the idea of invoking emergency powers.
This is the second time Mr Toledo has resorted to emergency powers.
He first entered the States of Guernsey in 1997, and currently also serves on the Parochial Ecclesiastical Rates Review Committee and the Emergency Powers Authority.
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He resisted calls to use emergency powers to take over the running of the airline, used no government money and made a tempestuous union face reality.
However, the bill gives the government emergency powers to temporarily extend this period to 28 days - in exceptional circumstances - by order if Parliament is dissolved.
Twice police used emergency powers in July 2009 and October 2010 to take her from her mother, but Kaiya was returned with "undue haste" the report said.
That determination defies logic and the law, but was a necessary fiction for the agency to continue operating under limited emergency powers that such a finding invokes.
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Which is why, as Britain contemplates new emergency powers, it needs to build in safeguards against the constant danger of mistakes and the police's tendency to make full use of their powers.
Republican officials said some senators felt renewed pressure to stand up to Mr. Cuomo after he used emergency powers to push the gun legislation through in the middle of the night with little debate.
The FDA does have emergency powers to put a drug or vaccine on the market soon, and Adams said that was a distant possibility if something went awry in the federal supply line for the H1N1 vaccine.
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The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez persuaded Congress to grant him almost all the emergency economic powers he had demanded.
And some campaigners have called for the use of emergency banning powers to tackle the threat from legal highs.
On September 23, 2001, by Executive Order 13224, the President declared a national emergency with respect to persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
Such persons shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions).
On June 16, 2006, by Executive Order 13405, the President declared a national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons undermining democratic processes or institutions in Belarus, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
On August 1, 2007, by Executive Order 13441, the President declared a national emergency and ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons undermining the sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes or institutions and certain other persons, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706).
On July 24, 2011, by Executive Order 13581, I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the activities of significant transnational criminal organizations.
In order to close this loophole, the Lautenberg amendment would apply the same restrictions imposed on U.S. companies' dealings with a foreign country or persons dealing with that country pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to foreign-incorporated subsidiaries of such companies, where the U.S. parent owns at least a 50% share of the subsidiary.
On October 27, 2006, by Executive Order 13413, the President declared a national emergency with respect to the situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), ordered related measures blocking the property of certain persons contributing to the conflict in that country.
First, a state review panel declared that a financial emergency existed in the city, making it likely that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will appoint an emergency financial manager with sweeping powers.
It added the council's director for sustainable communities would be given "delegated powers to identify potential emergency stopping places" in a bid to prevent further unauthorised camps.
Musharraf's term was set to end Thursday, but the military leader remained at the helm via extraordinary powers granted through an emergency declaration he issued November 3 that extends his presidential term.
Existing law in Michigan already allows for the appointment of such emergency managers, but with nowhere near the powers being granted under the new legislation.
It has also introduced emergency laws that give the government sweeping new powers to take over companies, limit the authority of boards, and call shareholder meetings.
"Using my constitutional powers, I introduce a state of emergency in the provinces of Cajamarca, Celendin, Hualgayoc and Contumaza, " President Humala said.
Less than a month later, Musharraf did step down as army chief, but only after transferring many powers -- including the ability to lift the emergency order -- to the presidency and handpicking his successor to lead Pakistan's military, which controls its nuclear arsenal.
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