The union argues that the panel can only decide on issues about which it has received evidence.
Others, despite rules intended to forbid the practice, indicate how they would decide on issues like the death penalty or abortion.
According to the Constitution (which was itself ratified by a loya jirga in 2004), such a council can be convened "to decide on issues related to independence, national sovereignty, territorial integrity as well as supreme national interests".
"In the next 15 years, the courts are going to decide on issues very vital to our lives, such as whether campaign finance reform survives, whether choice survives, affirmative action survives, the status of the environment.
Mr. Webster testified that "the designated leader must be clearly and unambiguously empowered to act and to decide on issues of great importance to the success of the intelligence community".
But the two sides must still decide on issues such as drawing up the new border and how to divide Sudan's debts and oil wealth.
Many logistic networks aim to decide on issues such as (1) locations for depots (2) allocation of customers to each established facilities, and (3) transportation networks connecting customers to facilities by vehicle routing.
If the legislature doesn't pass new laws to keep up, courts are forced to look to old statutes and case law to decide on issues that weren't even thought of when passed and decided.
Because of their proximity to the market, retailers can provide more accurate demand forecasts to the supplier that is used to decide on issues such as capacity building and market prices with regard to retailers stiff due dates, different lead times and different price-dependent demand functions.
"It would be difficult for a set of bureaucrats who normally decide on issues like visas to refuse something that is sanctioned or at least established by the US Congress".
An initial probe noted that Al Sherif used his position as information minister and head of the Consultative Council to obtain bribes and gifts to decide on issues favoring his appointees.
