In a longrunning wrangle between Kraftwerk and two German hip-hop producers over a two-second drum loop from 1977's Metal on Metal, Germany's supreme court decreed that an unlicensed sample was only permissible if the same effect could not be achieved without sampling.
"What justification did you have for your 11-day resistance to the supreme leader's decree?" asked Ali Motahari, a lawmaker who is a conservative antagonist of Mr. Ahmadinejad's and asked the questions.
India's supreme court eventually decreed it was unconstitutional to bar women for any reason.
When the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, decreed a complete ban on poppy growing in July 2000, few foreign drug officials expected any results.
In 2005, the Indonesian supreme court issued a decree making the attorney general responsible for supervising the former leader's medical care, but the charges were dropped a year later.
"Fundamental questions need to be the object of that dialogue," Sarlo said, criticising Macri for appointing supreme court justices by decree without prior consensus.
The ultimate authority in the settlement of disputes was the pharaoh, whose decrees were supreme.
Seth Mydans (NYT AFGHANISTANN: CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIANS Conversion from Islam to Christianity, or encouraging such a conversion, is now a crime punishable by death, the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, has decreed, according to the state-run Radio Shariat.
The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a decree saying the feast "has no religious basis and is harmful and must be avoided," the government Web site reported.
Throughout the dispute, the Iranians have asserted that their uranium enrichment activities are for civilian purposes and that AyatollahAli Khamenei, the supreme leader, issued a religious decree banning nuclear weapons in the country.
