Sentences with phrase «edicts on»

So no TOBs adjustments are required and one wonders why the US needs to have so many TOBs adjustments when the Head of the US weather bureau was already issuing edicts on using standard hours as early as the late - 1800s.

Sounds wonderful but then the senators threaten to take away all federal money to schools with children at or below the poverty line unless they adopt the senate's edicts on education.

And the imperial stormtroopers who enforce their educational edicts on California's state legislature, its thousands of public school boards, and by extension, millions of parents and children, are all part of an evil empire called the California Teachers Association, or CTA.

Since 1979, the state has become a religious autocracy, and imposes islamic edicts on matters such as dating.

With authoritative edicts on health.

Like posting religious edicts on state public grounds?

Do you think that there is a god handing down edicts on what is moral and not?

The Right - Wing Christian conservatives need to learn that lesson, before they impose their edicts on all..

However, he then felt free to make his own imperial will known and issued an Edict on his personal responsibilities, banning all Luther's writings, whether good or bad.

Not exact matches

Based on the BLS's findings, though, Mayer's new edict could be a blessing in disguise for Yahoo workers.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

They did not set their hands on the plunder, though both Persian law and the second edict allowed them to.

She asks that the edict be continued for one more day, but only in the city of Susa, and that Haman's ten sons be hanged on a gallows.

Even if I accepted the premise that the Christian bible (in its present form no less) somehow represents the final word on God's will... it still does not reveal any such edict.

the Edict of Milan / Tolerance started Christianity on a new path and events in history have further deluded, changed, interpreted or added to Christianity ever since.

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

The king Yazdegard himself approved of the organization of the Persian church on this basis and issued a firman (edict) giving recognition to the Catholicos as the head of the Persian church.

It seems probable that Nero's implication of the Christians in the fire of Rome was the first occasion on which such an imperial edict was specifically applied to Christians; once issued, the edict, put into force only sporadically and in particular regions during the next century, was to menace Christians with persecution whenever they grew strong or incurred the enmity of pagan or Jewish neighbours.

On March 31, 1492 they issued the Alhambra Edict, aka the Edict of Expulsion, which expelled Jews from the Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon.

On 22 September he issued an imperial Edict at a plenary meeting.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

=== - ======= > typical Christian Taliban Madrassa and this Mullah passing on his edicts of hatred and bigotry < ====== - ===

«on a mission from God» is an edict to do what ever he wants!

When Diocletian decided on measures against the Christians, the serenity with which this decision was implemented in the series of edicts after 303 AD.

The edict authorizing Haman's troops «to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate all Jews» was granted by the king on the day before Passover.

The edict is sent out on the thirteenth day of the first month.

But even more than this, remember I told you when we looked at chapter 3 that the edict went out on the eve of the Passover?

I'm not even going to mention the large percentage of American Catholics who violate this edict by using contraception on a regular basis... or the hypocrisy of Catholic hierarchy who went to great lengths to cover - up some very un-Godly behavior by a scary number of its priests

Mordecai heard about the edict to annihilate the Jews, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes.

This would have accomplished very little, for there was still an edict out for the annihilation of the Jews on a certain date about one year from now.

In 1685 Louis XIV, intent on being absolute monarch and determined to be rid of a religious minority who constituted an enclave not yet fully integrated under his rule, revoked the Edict of Nantes.

The rather humane provisions of the mis - named «Edict of Milan» were not infrequently ignored in subsequent Western history; but that doesn't alter the fact that the «Edict» had a profound and, in many respects, beneficial influence on the future of the West.

Thus the not - really - an - Edict of Nicomedia and Elsewhere cemented into the foundations of the West ideas first sketched by the Christian philosopher Lactantius: that coercion and true religious faith don't mix because «God wishes to be adored by people who are free» (as Joseph Ratzinger would rewrite Lactantius a millennium and a half later, in the 1986 Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation).

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Baseball Commissioner Landis once backed down on one of his edicts because of a friendship between Joe Judge and an obscure postman

With that edict in place on Wednesday, the R&A probably wasn't thrilled to see a pair of Northern Irishmen exchange some money in a very entertaining and public way.

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These brave women who lived in slavery in Egypt and defied Pharaoh's edict for the Jewish midwives to kill Jewish male babies, by giving birth on their own, squatting in the fields.

Edicts, inquisitions, laws, and wars failed to extinguish people's religious convictions, or insistence on articulating and sharing them.

So it's strange to find the Sun also demand that «British laws will trump Brussels edicts» and «immigration will be on OUR terms».

But it's just another layer of government that sends out edicts, periodically, passed on to the districts, passed on to the schools.

The fiat will instate a 90 - day moratorium on new visa applications for people coming from Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia and a 120 - day cessation of arrivals from Syria — the latter a shift from the previous edict's indefinite ban on migration from the war - shattered nation.

The story goes on to note that such an edict from Bharara's office is highly unlikely.

Speaking on NY1 earlier today, Mr. de Blasio praised Mr. Cuomo but demurred on whether he would issue a similar edict.

The new edict for Oahu mostly focuses on grid circuits where power available from rooftop solar reaches or exceeds 100 percent of the minimum daytime load, the low point of the total power that customers on a circuit are using.

Importantly, chickens and eggs were not restricted by these edicts, which may have led to an increase in selective pressures on THSR, allowing chickens to be raised in closer confines as demand for their meat and eggs increased.

Catholic edict at the time dictated a meatless meal on Friday, which drove salt cod's popularity.

A leaked draft of the encyclical — a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its 1.3 billion adherents — emphasises moral responsibilities to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and calls for changes in lifestyle and energy use to avoid the «unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem».

Some of the belief that the church frowned on autopsies may have come from a misinterpretation of a papal edict from 1299, in which the Pope forbade the boiling of the bones of dead Crusaders.

As a Great Lakes environmental writer, I'm moved and inspired by the pope's edict - not just what it means on the surface, but also because of what it means in the big picture to the growing importance of religion as a form of environmental communication.