They crumble into meaninglessness when set off like a free-standing decree in a self-help book.
Last year, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care withdrew the health accreditation of Maricopa County's jails for failing to meet its standards, and a federal judge refused to lift a long-standing consent decree on the jails, finding that conditions remained unconstitutional for pre-trial detainees.
After waiting almost half an hour, Drew hacked out, and then had to linger over his third, standing under an umbrella, after the official decreed that the group behind him should play through.
This week, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, announced, essentially by executive decree, that the Obama Administration would no longer enforce the standing rules on mandatory-minimum sentencing for drug offenders — at least, not for otherwise unoffending individuals.
The council's standing committee approved the changes on April 19 and Premier Wen Jiabao signed decrees putting them into effect on April 24, the council said.
Vice President José Alencar, standing in for President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who is visiting the United States, Cuba and Mexico, said that he would sign a decree ending the ban, despite resistance from environmental advocates and their supporters in the government.
Our approach is progressive, and consists of providing, through fuzzy logic, a new index that captures the essence of the existing one (the conventional physiochemical index designed by a Decree in 2002 and never revised since), and yet incorporates the benefits of another well standing index.
Sheikh Khalifa issued the decree just hours after the UAE was elected to a three-year term on the UN Human Rights Council, after standing unopposed for one of the five vacant seats reserved for Asian states.
Said item decrees that: "The ball is to be fed into the tunnel from the referee's side with the halfback standing square with both hands on the ball".
