Sentences with phrase «issuing edicts»

I think it's because you get lawyers at larger companies issuing these edicts about what managers can and can't do — not because it's illegal but because they will * always * recommend the safest, most legally conservative course of action.

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.

By default this will return to a certain standing depending on how a party feels about you, but more can be gained by issuing edicts that parties approve of, building certain things and by going through the events that pop up where you're given the chance to pick between a few options that typically increase your goodwill with one part at the cost of another.

Brown did not have the experience that a variety of Government posts brings, spending his days bunkered down in the Treasury and issuing his edicts to civil servants and Ministers alike.

He issued an edict calling for the seizure of Donatist property, though later in 321 A.D., he asked the «catholic» bishops to show toleration towards them.

WHEREAS, this situation has also weakened the authority of legitimate governments and enabled criminal groups to issue edicts attributed to Islam, but which, in fact, alarmingly distort its fundamental principles and goals in ways that have seriously harmed the population as a whole;

They issued an edict tolerating Christianity.

He was banished to Egypt and, emperor Theodosius issued an edict ordering all his writings to be destroyed.

A quick synopsis of the somewhat elliptical storyline: Ahaseurus, the king of Persia, is convinced by his advisor Haman to issue an edict licensing the mass slaughter of all the kingdom's Jews.

In AD 847 Hsuan Tsung came to the throne and he issued an edict of religious toleration.

In 1817, King Frederick William III of Prussia issued an edict calling for the merger of the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

The Byzantine emperors who first issued the edict to smash and destroy the icons (Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V, both of whom reigned in the eighth century) do remind one of Oliver Cromwell, for both sets of rulers were military leaders with a loyal army from the provinces; such figures often have a puritanical streak and tend, moreover, to command soldiers who themselves are suspicious of the decadent mores of the cities.

It's not a matter of the gov» t issuing an edict and manna just falling from heaven to solve everyone's woes.

The fact that this is the only religion where you have to issue an edict against «killing humans» says volumes about Islam.

One is left wondering how long it will be before the European Court of Human Rights issues an edict safeguarding the right of pro-abortion MPs to march up to the altar rail, and whether Bishop Egan will be left alone contra mundum in opposing it.

Aleander began to work very hard along with the Emperor's Confessor Fr Glapion to persuade the Electors that the Diet should issue an Edict in support of the excommunication handing Luther over to the ecclesiastical authorities.

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.

Continuing his weekend - long tirade against the NFL and black athletes nationwide, President Donald Trump issued an edict Sunday morning: Americans should boycott football.

Gannett newspapers reported that Alphonso David, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legal counsel, has issued an edict that requires the bureaucracy headed by Alain Kaloyeros to run all decisions regarding the Buffalo Billion and nanotechnology projects in Albany past Bart Schwartz, who is heading the governor's review of numerous state economic development programs.

Gannett newspapers reported that Alphonso David, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's legal counsel, has issued an edict that requires the bureaucracy headed by Alain Kaloyeros to run all decisions regarding the Buffalo Billion and nanotechnology projects in Albany past Bart Schwartz, who is heading the governor's review -LSB-...]

As the rumblings built up, I am told that the head of one of the CSIRO's six institutes issued an edict to staff, telling them that the proposed changes were an internal matter and not to say anything to the media.

Second, it signals that the government can at any time issue edicts of this sort, possibly expanding the list of nations.

The so - called «Circle F» project began in 1983, when Toyota's chairman issued the edict to «build a car better than the best in the world.»

Looking at the Challenger SRT, you can't help but think that Dodge issued an edict to its designers saying to keep the basic shape of the original Challenger, but bring it into the 21st century.

There is even a legend that the King issued an edict that the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel - type dog could not be denied entrance to any public place — a high honor indeed, if it is true.

This problem also occurred when I issued an edict that caused everyone to launch a massive celebration with fireworks; the games framerate would drop.

27 centuries before the current vogue of white roofs and «cool cities» initiatives, Solon The Lawgiver issued an edict ordering Athenians to whitewash their houses once a year.

Participation in social networks by judges in the U.S. has reached a level that prompted the Florida judicial ethics committee to issue an edict in 2009 that judges and lawyers should not be Facebook «friends,» to avoid appearance of conflict in the event they end up in the same courtroom.

Not exact matches

Soft - peddling around an issue leaves people feeling like your input is a recommendation, not an edict.

Although in Egypt the top Islamic cleric had issued a «fatwa» (edict) against bitcoin so making sure its permissible by local law is recommended.

In fact, government - issued fiat currencies are accorded value only because of a government edict.»

Uber said expanding its service may be a boon for Saudi Arabia, a country where women are not allowed to drive because of fatwas, or religious edicts, issued by conservative Muslim clerics that uphold a distinct segregation between the sexes.

-1384), who produced the first English Bible (in 1382, not keeping it in Latin as the official language of the church), was condemned by Pope Gregory XI, issuing five edicts against him.

In the 1500s, King Sigismund of Transylvania, who was converted to Unitarianism by his court minister, issued the world's first Edict of Religious Toleration, allowing his subjects to choose to observe religions other than the King's.

In this context, Osama bin Laden's issuing of a fatwa (or edict) against the West in 1998 and styling himself a sheikh went against the tradition of the defensive jihad.

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.

The Edict of Worms now lay beside the formal Decree of Excommunication, Decet Romanum, which had been eventually issued in a form acceptable to all.

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And he already had issued his famous edict: «Three things can happen when you pass, and two of them are bad.»

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

«There's a significant difference between negotiating in good faith, and issuing some kind of edict that may or may not be legal,» said Stephen Madarasz, the association spokesman.

Irving - Pease began to unwind knotty citations and references until he reached the end of the thread: Pope Gregory never issued such an edict.

Christian dating rules always seem to hit this one on the head with a range of edicts so let's not issue any ultimatums here.

If you listen closely to the movie's commercials, you may hear of a royal edict being issue against «Robin of the Hood.»

This would in turn inevitably draw the Department of Education deeper and deeper into the business of operating schools, most likely by issuing an ever - expanding set of ineffectual yet burdensome edicts.

Business Citizens that supplied books to the rebels were issued a new edict - allow the Royals to price their work as they chose or lose the right to publish all Royal - approved work.