Sentences with phrase «[by the decree»

The decree issued by Pena Nietro gives the country's Health Secretary 180 days to «harmonize regulations» on medical marijuana, as well as the creation of regulations to govern production, sale and use of medical marijuana.

He issued a decree that buildings could be painted anything but white.

And if all that weren't enough, the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission decreed last fall that long - standing policies governing how cable companies bundle and sell channels will be replaced with more consumer - oriented «pick and play» rules.

The decree also calls for research into all the potential health benefits of marijuana, as well as programs that prevent children and adolescents from having access to marijuana and programs for those who develop addictions.

And the jewel - like homes that fill Burano, Italy, are also the result of a government decree.

«It's kind of deliciously ironic that self - management is being decreed from above,» Pfeffer said.

But that decree may never see the light of day.

-[Richard R. John] In» 56, a consent decree is negotiated.

«It's ironic in that you now have a dictatorial decree to move to a democracy,» he said, «but it's actually the smoothest, most powerful path to get there.

Eight years later, in 1982, a consent decree ends the antitrust suit.

Under the consent decree, Trader Joe's agreed over the next three years to reduce its leak rate to less than half the average in the grocery store sector, and to use non-ozone depleting refrigerants at all new and heavily remodeled stores.

Trader Joe's also agreed to enter a consent decree and pay a $ 500,000 civil fine to resolve claims it violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by Canadian government decree in 2010, the company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.

Vladeck, the Georgetown professor, see he expects «some sort of an agreement between the FTC and Facebook which will call for very serious financial civil penalties, and a new consent decree that will ratchet up the restrictions on the way Facebook gathers information.»

We take any allegations of violations of our consent decrees very seriously as we did in 2012 in a privacy case involving Google.»

Facebook says it didn't violate the consent decree.

Forward - looking statements include, among other things, statements regarding future: production, costs, and cash flows; drilling locations and zones and growth opportunities; commodity prices and differentials; capital expenditures and projects, including the number of rigs employed and the number of completion crews; renegotiation of our credit facility; management of lease expiration issues; financial ratios; certain accounting and tax change impacts; midstream capacity and related curtailments; our ability to meet our volume commitments to midstream providers; ongoing compliance with our consent decree; and the timing and adequacy of infrastructure projects of our midstream providers.

Rodrigues, a member of the opposition Rede party (led by former presidential candidate and environment minister Marina Silva), has proposed blocking the president's decree, and plans to file lawsuits in Amapá and Pará to carry out the preventative measure.

«You're so ridiculously proud of your self - declared majority, but you don't have enough votes to approve the Afghanistan decree,» Berlusconi said in parliament.

A decree that will open up an area of the Amazon roughly the size of Denmark to mining has been widely criticized by everyone from supermodel Gisele Bundchen to lawmakers.

It was at such an occasion in 1995 — the 200th anniversary of a Spanish royal decree that made Cuervo the first legitimate producer of «mezcal wine» — that the company directors stumbled upon the idea to share their secret stash with the rest of us.

In 1932 he wrote a widely circulated pamphlet decrying the measures in which he ended by saying, «Although that was not the intention, this emergency decree will help my party to victory, and therefore put an end to the illusions of the present System.»

He was an austerity guy who liked to issue «notverordunungen» — emergency decrees.

He has said he hopes the decree would «teach the peasants to work more efficiently,» and that regional governors who failed to ensure timely and efficient harvests in their regions would be dismissed.

Bilinkis's bank account — along with every other account in the country — had been frozen by executive decree three weeks earlier.

«Yesterday, a decree was put on my table concerning - we are speaking bluntly - serfdom,» Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko told a meeting on Tuesday to discuss improvements to livestock farming, gazeta.ru reported.

In addition, they sought a nationwide injunction and contempt sanctions against the RNC under a consent decree that goes back to 1982.

The Obama administration Justice Department, for instance, has opened 23 investigations of law enforcement agencies, including police departments in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri, for unconstitutional practices and has reached court - enforceable consent decrees with many of them.

On Tuesday, Teigen shared a screenshot of a message informing her that she was blocked from reading Trump's frequent decrees through his @realDonaldTrump account.

As of the moment, injunctions have been denied in Arizona, Nevada, and also by the New Jersey court considering the national consent decree.

(Remarkably, the consent decree was put in place as a result of other events Roger Stone was involved in 35 years ago.

However, if so desired, the original NAFTA also allows countries a faster way to change auto rules: by cabinet decree.

Then the U.S. Department of Justice slapped the company with a wide - ranging consent decree, citing the company's quality deficiencies.

But antitrust lawyers said that, in recent years, the remedy for those concerns in media industry mergers has been a consent decree with the acquiring company promising not to engage in anti-competitive behavior.

To hedge the risk, Reimer decreed that Russian clients would pay in advance for goods shipped directly from the factory in Asia.

A 1992 Supreme Court ruling decreed that online vendors can sell goods without collecting sales tax, as long as they don't have a physical location in a given state.

And they «may seek to impose injunctive relief, consent decrees, or other civil or criminal penalties....»

Such decrees have been cited by Venezuela prosecutors as a means of extracting bribes in some recent PDVSA corruption cases.

The governmental agencies investigating the cybersecurity incident may seek to impose injunctive relief, consent decrees, or other civil or criminal penalties, which could, among other things, impact our ability to collect and use consumer information, materially increase our data security costs and / or otherwise require us to alter how we operate our business.

The two Chevron employees were jailed when they refused to sign a supply contract written by PDVSA executives under an emergency decree - which skips the competitive bidding process, according to a half dozen sources close to the case.

This summer, President Barack Obama decreed that spouses of H1 - B holders would be allowed to work in the U.S..

As employers do not deal with the day - to - day matters of hiring, firing or paying employees, for franchisors to decree a franchise - wide minimum wage may violate the franchise model, making franchisees nothing more than employees.

Back on March 1 the government, by its own decree, forced itself to cut $ 85 billion from its budget this year and the outlook was scary!

Cases have been settled with consent decrees, decrees that many criticized as too weak.

Ten hours after gloating about certain aspects of the Omnibus Spending Bill, Donald Trump took to Twitter, his favorite platform for presidential decrees, Friday morning threatening to veto it.

In late September, Reebok entered into a consent decree with the FTC, in which it agreed to pay $ 25 million in refunds to customers who bought the shoes.

As if by official decree, the Minitel's decline commenced.

The consent decree requires court approval before it can enter into effect.

Maybe it's the prior deceptive activity at the company, which resulted in a 2011 consent decree.

And though the Amish, whose religion decrees that they reject modern technologies and fashions, are popularly thought of as buggy - driving, pie - baking farmers, a growing number of North America's roughly 225,000 Amish are getting entrepreneurial.