One of the "sleeper" decrees put through by the emergency regime of Gen. Charles de Gaulle was aimed directly at what is left of "La Vie Parisienne" -- the high heeled girls who take their customers into small hotels for a "rendez-vous".
Prime Minister Li Keqiang vowed on coming to office in March that there would be no more new government buildings during the current five-year term of the government, and the new decree follows through on that promise.
On June 30th, earlier than expected, he rushed a decree through cabinet, abolishing some of the more abstruse regulations in the services industry that throttle economic activity in Italy.
"If they push this decree through as they said they will, it pretty much makes the lights go out in Kabul," the official said.
Still, the government was forced to issue a federal decree through the cabinet, where Mr. Kostunica and his reformists have a majority, after losing its battle with Parliament this week.
This designation comes just weeks after the world's largest marine protected area was created outside Hawaii — also by presidential decree through the Antiquities Act.
And since the Parliament is only one month old, most of the laws that govern civic and political life in Egypt, including the Protest Law, the NGO Law, the Terrorism Law, have been decreed through Presidential fiat.
But one month into his government, Macri has already drawn fierce criticism for bypassing congress with a rapid succession of controversial presidential decrees to push through measures including the appointment of two new justices to the supreme court and the overturning of Fernández's media law, which she had designed to reduce the size of the Clarín media conglomerate.
But he struggles to get his decrees followed through by police and security services because the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wants to strengthen measures which prevent men and women mixing.
Influenced by Auden, whose bleak auspices and eerie decrees rang through poems set in the industrial fringes of human thriving, Murray imagined that she was inheriting not a blank, but a waste: her job was to "recreate what is desolated, to rebuild".
