According to the version of the Constitution then in force, under article 95 the supreme executive and governing authority of the Confederation is a Federal Council composed of seven members .

The Federal Court of Appeal ruling may be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Electoral authority is exercised by the Supreme Electoral Council and subordinate electoral bodies.

The term has also been used to define a dominant federal government that seeks to control the authority of local institutions an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal legislation.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) had provided assistance to the Transitional Federal Government.

(b) The draft federal law regulating the use of force by police during deportations and during the transport of detainees ordered by a federal authority

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran s Supreme Leader, has made an uncompromising nuclear policy central to his domestic authority.

Henceforth the cabinet, with himself as its motive power, became the one supreme authority in the state.

The system of racial quotas in Brazil began in 2000 and was validated by the Supreme Federal Tribune in 2012.

Appointed Deputy Chief Registrar, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria in the month of December 1995.

On other issues notably immigration Obama rejects claims of states rights and insists on federal authority.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

Many New Deal programs remain active, with some still operating under the original names, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

The Supreme Leader has absolute authority and can veto decisions made by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

Liberia's highest judicial authority is the Supreme Court, made up of five members and headed by the Chief Justice of Liberia.

April 2001 Represented the Federal Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in important constitutional matters of public importance before the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

After becoming President, Vladimir Putin consolidated central authority, a campaign that culminated in 2005 with presidential appointments of hitherto elected federal governors.

The Federal Court also has authority to order the stay of an expulsion order pending consideration of an application for judicial review.

It was further reported that Mr. Rahim was brought before the Federal Review Board of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (FRB SC) on more than one occasion.

The decision of the Trial Division of the Federal Court may be appealed against before the Federal Court of Appeal. The latter decision may also be appealed against before the Supreme Court of Canada subject to the latter's granting of leave to appeal.

In Germany itself, failure to achieve a politically integrated federal Europe baffled pro integration political forces and dented the war generation s moral authority.

Since its inception, the Islamic Republic has had a weak presidency ultimate authority rests with the Supreme Leader, first Ayatollah Khomeini and now Ayatollah Khamenei.

Executive authority is exercised by the President of the Republic, who is Head of State, Head of Government and Supreme Head of the Nicaraguan Army.

However, it is now recommended that the Transitional Federal Government should work closely with the International Civil Aviation Organization, through the Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority for Somalia, to enable the Transitional Federal Government to undertake its aeronautical responsibilities.

To be sure, it was a carefully controlled election all candidates who might actually have challenged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei s authority were disqualified in advance.

What the lively Pakistani media dubbed memogate forced Haqqani to resign and enabled the Supreme Court to assert its authority by deciding to investigate the matter.

Until now, parliament has been an effective tool for the Supreme Leader legitimately to rein in presidential authority, and it is difficult to imagine that the Larijani brothers would have mounted such a sharp challenge to Ahmadinejad without the Supreme Leader s approval.

WASHINGTON, DC Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the mistake that all Iranian presidents make he has challenged the authority of the country s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

In view of Greece s deceptive behavior, Eurostat, the EU s statistical agency, declared that its Greek counterpart and the supreme Greek supervisory authority had deliberately falsified the data.

In addition to this fundamental precept, article 50, section I (a) of the Judicial Authority Organization Act states that offences contained in international treaties to which Mexico is a party are federal offences to be tried by federal criminal judges.

To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged.

Supporters have noted that the Supreme Court is vital to helping the Territory grow in self governance and have claimed that it will help prevent intrusion of federal jurisdiction into local matters.

Each claims to be acting with the Supreme Leader s full authority, but ultimately are unable to make commitments because they have little idea of what Khamenei wants to do.

One of the most influential figures in Iran during the Republic s first decade, Montazeri provided an extensive justification for the supreme leader s absolute authority, which many ayatollahs considered heretical.

In any event, the Federal Court is bound to follow the Supreme Court's decision to the extent that it held that the aboriginal rights in question had been extinguished by the Williams Treaties.

11. Urges the Transitional Federal Government, in coordination with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the African Union, to develop a strategy and timetable outlining its functional priorities

Such lessons are most obviously relevant to the current competition to succeed Ben Bernanke as Chair of the US Federal Reserve Board, the world s most powerful monetary authority.

Article 11 of the new constitution declares that All that is not written in the exclusive powers of the federal authorities is in the authority of the regions.

Belgium stated that the Federal Department of Justice, Head Office for Legislation, Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, 115 Boulevard de Waterloo, 1000 Brussels, had been designated the central authority

BEIJING On November 15 Xi Jinping became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the CCP s Central Military Commission, giving him supreme authority over China s armed forces.

After the Act of Abjuration in 1581 the northern States General replaced Philip II as the supreme authority of the northern Netherlands, which then became known as the United Provinces.

The resolution also confirmed the appellate jurisdiction and administrative authority of the Supreme Court of Guam over all inferior courts in the Territory, thereby effectively establishing a unified local judiciary.

He noted that the system was almost 60 years old and that the Guam Waterworks Authority needed to borrow 200 million just to meet federal Environmental Protection Agency requirements.

(o) Establish national prevention machinery with authority to make periodic visits to federal and provincial detention centres for the purpose of fully implementing the Optional Protocol to the Convention

Since the president has no authority over these issues, any disagreement between the Supreme Leader and the next president will place the president in a difficult position with no real power.