At the insistence of Leopold, a national synod of Tuscan bishops then met at Florence (April 23 , 1787; they, however, rejected the decrees of Pistoia.
That is new and none has been sacked.Turkey's new president, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, has twice rejected a decree containing provisions like those that the general wants put into law.
A Pakistani singer who rejected a decree from the Taliban to end her music career has been shot dead in the north-west of the country.
The MPR almost unanimously rejected the decree, and is proceeding with the impeachment, to be followed by the swearing-in of the vice-president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, as Indonesia's new president.The MPR is Indonesia's supreme constitutional power, and elected Mr Wahid himself in 1999.
Using a standard that enables judges to reject consent decrees if they are not "fair, reasonable, adequate and in the public interest", Rakoff rebelled against rubber-stamping the deal.
Even the restoration of icon veneration in 787 failed to bridge the differences between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe, for the advisers of Pippin's son and successor, Charlemagne, condemned the iconodule position as heartily as an earlier generation had rejected the iconoclast decrees of Leo III.
But last week, the lower house of Parliament dealt Mr. Karzai a rare rebuke by voting almost unanimously to reject the decree.
But, given the politicised nature of the Turkish judiciary, the chances of bringing that off were not great.Quoting amply from the constitution, Mr Sezer, who was formerly chief of the Constitutional Court, said he was rejecting the decree because it defied the rule of law.
Mr. Zaleski rejected the Italian decree as violating European Union rules.
Six years ago, Federal District Judge Stanley Sporkin rejected a consent decree filed by the Justice Department and Microsoft, finding that it wouldn't work.
