The decree concludes with the instruction that a copy was to be placed in every temple, inscribed in the "language of the gods" (hieroglyphs), the "language of documents" (demotic), and the "language of the Greeks" as used by the Ptolemaic government.
Accepting the proposed consent decree, the judge concluded, "would almost be the equivalent of a court accepting a probationary plea from a defendant who has told the court he will go out and again engage in inappropriate conduct".
In minutes of a Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting posted for about half an hour on the April website, the company said it misinterpreted a government decree and "mistakenly concluded this canal was mandated by government regulations".
However, I dissent from accepting this consent decree because it arguably cannot be concluded that the consent decree is in the public interest when it contains a denial of liability.
In his magnum opus, Higher Objectives and Intents of Islamic Law, Shatibi studied the whole shariah carefully, and concluded that all its decrees could be rendered to the protection of five fundamental values: Life, religion, property, progeny and reason.
Repentance, prayer and charity can avert, or temper, judgment's severe decree, the prayer concludes.
He recalls a Turkmen saying — "Fatherless, I am orphan; motherless, I am captive" — and concludes, "Fate decreed two pains for me.
Until last Thursday, the Justice Department and most of the 18 states involved in the latest round of litigation had concluded that a consent decree limiting Microsoft's conduct would never be enough to restore competition to the software market.
Without a formal legal agreement to reform — known as a consent decree — and independent monitoring, the report concluded, reform efforts in Chicago were "not likely to be successful".
In the address, which he concluded by reading out the formal decree, he did not indicate what the state of emergency would mean in practical terms.
