Even if lawmakers agree to Mr. Karzai's order, made by presidential decree, to postpone their six-week break, which was to begin this week, the way ahead for Mr. Karzai is fraught with difficult decisions.
More fundamentally, legislation in Italy is too often made by emergency decree, resulting in an ever growing mass of regulation.
The documents include a decree made by Catherine the Great in 1792 and a report, marked "Top Secret," that was written by Gen. Vasily Blyukher in 1932 outlining the reconstruction of airfields.
If John Mayer were mayor, fathers and mothers would be required — following a public decree made by Mayor Mayer from a podium festooned with dreamcatchers — to be good to their daughters.
Karzai has bowed to intense international pressure to scrap the law, described by the UN human rights chief in Afghanistan as "reminiscent of the decrees made by the Taliban regime".
The UN human rights chief in Afghanistan had described it as "reminiscent of the decrees made by the Taliban regime", prompting international indignation, while the UN's Fund for Women said it "legalises rape" within a marriage.
"For a new law in 2009 to target women in this way is extraordinary, reprehensible and reminiscent of the decrees made by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the 1990s," Ms. Pillay said in a statement posted on her agency's Web site.
In England, this attempt to secure control was manifested in decrees made by synods at Clofesho in 803 and more especially the synod of Chelsea in 816.
"The Administrative Court does not have the authority to give a ruling on decrees made by administrative representatives," Ujang Abdullah, the president of the court, said according to Indonesian media.
After Russian colonization, the influence of the tojons was strengthened by the decrees made by the Empress Anna Ivanovna [ 1], and this official reinforcement of their power might have increased the spread of a limited number of Y-chromosomal lineages for a second time.
