During Mr. Beck's yearlong abbreviated tenure, he embarrassed the pageant by eschewing a 50-year-old rule and decreeing that women who had been divorced or who had had abortions should be allowed to enter the annual contest.
Big Brother needs to come down hard on rule-breakers and decree all whisperers and plotters sleep directly between Jedward in the double bed.
Poe's own pioneering efforts in crime-writing – mini-mysteries featuring Auguste Dupin, the model for Sherlock Holmes – naturally followed these rules, and his single-sitting decree was obeyed by successors such as Arthur Conan Doyle (the bulk of whose work of this kind consisted of short stories or novellas), Georges Simenon, Patricia Highsmith and Daphne du Maurier.
But he ruled by confrontation and decree, rather than consensus.
In response to the determination of organized labor, the left, political parties and students to resist the Free Officers, the commanders used a combination of coercive measures — outright force and military tribunals — to subdue the opposition, followed by a variety of rules, decrees and regulations to prevent further challenges to the Free Officers' authority.
Erskine May, the vast tome in which are accumulated the various rules and conventions governing parliamentary business, decrees that the same motion cannot be debated twice in one parliamentary session.
"We prefer division and no elections to reconciliation and elections".Instead, some appear to favour grafting the model that prevails in Jordan, where King Abdullah intermittently suspends parliament and rules by decree, but maintains stability, refuses to threaten Israel and listens as keenly to his foreign backers as he does to his own people.
He has dismissed parliament, neutered Fatah's governing central committee, and rules by decree.
A continent goes to war The cost of Kabila A diplomatic casualty Thank Allah for the Gulfies ReprintsAt present Mr Kabila has sweeping powers and rules by decree.
Mr. Macron is enacting the overhaul to the labor rules by decree, and the changes are expected to be implemented this month.
1973 December - Elections are held for a National Assembly advisory body, which consists of the 14 cabinet members plus 30 MPs elected by male voters over the age of 20. 1975 August - Following claims by prime minister Sheikh Khalifah Al KhalifahAl Khalifah that the National Assembly is impeding the work of the government, the Emir dissolves the assembly and rules by decree.
