Equally, however, it is the case that his biggest tasks are behind him - minority rule, the Scotland Act which upgrades Holyrood's powers and the groundwork for a deal between Edinburgh and London over the referendum.
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).
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.
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.
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.
The Assembly's powers have been granted under the Government of Wales Act (made in Westminster).
And Americans' exhaustion with wars overseas undoubtedly makes him more reluctant to act, but the president's persuasive powers can be deployed to good effect, especially since meaningful results can be achieved without the proverbial American boots on the ground.
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.
There was no promise of a Clean Air Act or tough new powers for China's environmental authorities, just the promise to do better.
That's a burden that great countries, great powers, have, is to act responsibly in the community of nations.
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The problem with this, argue some (including the Fed), is that only the Fed has broad powers to examine a bank's parent and its non-bank subsidiaries and act to stop problems elsewhere spreading to the insured bank.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, would act "more and more like a government with all the powers" needed to govern.
Jeremy Hunt's defence, against charges that he did not act as an impartial judge when exercising his powers to decide on whether News Corp should have been allowed to buy all of BSkyB, rests on a particular plank.
When the 1998 Northern Ireland Act was drawn up, the regulation of activities should have been omitted from the assembly's powers.
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