Mr. Chavez said he needed the decree authority for "the modernization of the country's legal structures and streamlining public administration".
In addition, Mr. Blyde insists that any concession of decree authority should specify a list of "inviolable guarantees" that would be beyond the president's ability to alter.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's decree gives authorities in the border areas wide powers to make arrests and set up special courts.
Bahrain Bahrain's king has issued new decrees, giving authorities more powers to strip citizenship and block suspected funding channels in attempts to quell escalating anti-government violence in the Gulf nation.
Then in 2008 a decree granted the authorities new powers to expel European Union citizens for reasons of public safety.
The emergency decree allows the authorities to suspend certain civil liberties and to censor the news media.
From the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, where approximately 200,000 Jews were sent during the Holocaust, comes the account of a decree from the authorities that ordered the surrender of all musical instruments.
Consider the heated scenes at a meeting on November 13th, when the commissioner for multilingualism challenged the commissioner for justice, freedom and security to speed up a probe into an Italian government decree allowing local authorities to deport Romanian immigrants.
In response, Vladimir Platonov, an official in Mr. Medvedev's party, United Russia, proposed a loophole in the law that would lift the restriction if the name change was based on a decree by federal authorities.
Therefore, the "authorities" decreed, in English we should hold that infinitive together unsplit.
