Mother Mary, a reclusive figure even within her order, governed the sisters until her death.
But the most common refrain was the collective expression of trust in a world order governed by the Security Council.
Our interests are best protected, not by unilateral action, but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules.
Under current law, President Bush would have to authorize personally any such change in the existing executive order governing intelligence operations.
Mr. Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists, said the current executive order governing such issues, signed by President Clinton in 1995, bars reclassification.
It appears that Bush has also modified the executive order governing the treatment of classified information from its plain text meaning.
The executive order governing surveillance may not be the only one that Bush has modified without revealing he has done so.
Under the executive order governing classification, the punishment could include dismissal, suspension without pay, reprimand or loss of a security clearance.
In fact, a change made in 2008 in the executive order governing intelligence was intended to make it easier for the security agency to share surveillance information with other agencies if it was considered "relevant" to their own investigations.
The new standards in the prison act were such a change, Justice O'Connor said, requiring an order governing prison conditions to be "narrowly drawn," to go "no further than necessary," and to be "the least intrusive means necessary" to correct the violation.
Far from preaching in the Hollywood biblical manner, these tales gaze with a searching (and sometimes teasing) concentration into the gaps between faith and reason, destiny and chance, cause and effect, to discern elusive glimpses of a higher moral order governing human fate.
