All Muslim groups in the country currently recognize its authority.

America is not a Hobbesian Leviathan with absolute authority and power.

Thirdly, the European Union's draft resolution damages the authority and the credibility of the United Nations.

Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.

Regulatory agencies need enforcement authority so that stricter rules can be implemented

The reformers have less authority but are the acceptable face of the Saudi dictatorship internationally.

d Relates to the commitment authority approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 59 292.

Members of the Saudi royal family are not entering the race, as they already enjoy ultimate political power.

They are regular churchgoers, have a high level of spiritual activity and recognize the authority of the church.

Some of these formulae allow sub national governments wide discretion others do not.

Deng Xiaoping was the last Chinese leader to possess undisputed authority to decide on public policy.

As stated earlier under the devolution plan district governments have the power to make budgets and undertake developmental plans.

By contrast, the president has no serious say in foreign policy, which is under the Supreme Leader s direct supervision.

The failure of such a bank could be managed in a more orderly fashion by using a cross border resolution authority.

Moreover, the current economic crisis has led to renewed talk about the need for the European Union to have taxing authority.

The camps' revolutionary councils wielded supreme power and any suspicion of dissent was publicly and brutally punished, often with torture and imprisonment.

Independent human rights institutions have ongoing, advisory authority with respect to human rights at the national and or international level.

Thus, the security service the Slovak Intelligence Service has the power to use special information gathering means to perform its tasks prescribed by law.

The difference is, of course, that most modern kings and queens are constitutional monarchs with no political power.

The French Government and its agencies have responsibility for a wide range of issues that are reserved to the national executive power, such as defense and external relations.

Through pre trial and pre defence status conferences, a Trial Chamber has the authority to streamline trial proceedings.

The Secretary General shoulders an awesome responsibility, yet it is not always clear that he has the necessary authority over the administration to deliver.

The UNCC secretariat noted that neither claimants nor claimant Governments had the power to compel the Governing Council to set the methods of calculation and of payment of interest.

(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

He noted that the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission had the power to grant amnesty in exchange for a full accounting of events by perpetrators of wrongful acts.

In many societies, men have the power to determine whether sex is safe or unsafe, forced or consensual, pleasurable or painful.

a Relates to the commitment authority request for the period from 1 July to 31 October 2005, pending the submission of the full 2005 06 budget.

To do so, we need to undertake a more detailed analysis of the proposals, which include, among other issues, that of deciding which organ has the authority to adopt the proposed regulation.

According to it, Tubu tribesmen are to withdraw from all areas and recognize the authority of the national army which would take control of all security operations in the south and on the borders.

The only difference would be that under our proposal the AU would retain the power to ensure accountability on the part of the nominated State or States through periodic election and or re election.

The Panel has reviewed 19 category D and five category C stand alone claims to determine if the claimants had the requisite authority to act.

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

Since then, a consensus has emerged in favor of the 1958 constitutional structure, because it has provided France with the strong executive it had always lacked.

Subject to the caveats referred to in paragraph 5 of its report, the Advisory Committee recommended that the General Assembly should approve and assess the full amount of the requested commitment authority.

The group s demands include dividing the country into six or eight new regions along broad ethnic lines with powers to generate and spend revenue.

Even in Morocco, a king with absolute power as Commander of the Faithful has been forced by intense public outrage to move toward a system more inclusive of political Islam.

Both the articles codifying international law and those which were considered as developing certain rules of law had become authoritative and were in fact a restatement of the law.

The fundamental question, then, is whether women really want to exercise power despite these provisions, the overall picture of women in decision making positions is not encouraging.

Concerning the possibility of a reconsideration of the act, the Court stated that the unilateral undertaking resulting from these statements cannot be interpreted as having been made in implicit reliance on an arbitrary power of reconsideration .

In Africa s wealthiest nation but also the nation where wealth is most unequally shared a bold populist now holds ultimate power over government policy.

Consequently, the Secretary General has no authority to provide United Nations funds to meet costs pertaining to UNFICYP other than through voluntary contributions received for the purpose.

It also observed n evertheless, the Court stresses that this does not mean that the Contracting States enjoy an unlimited discretion to subject persons within their jurisdiction to secret surveillance.

In addition, national law enforcement and judicial authorities retain the power to take all appropriate measures within their territory toward persons, including their own citizens, who have committed (or are suspected of having committed) terrorist offences.

In fact, although the central government has the authority to collect the revenues generated by existing fields, there is no law to prevent local officials from modernizing old sites and claiming that they are new.

Moreover, the ECB has the authority to set the eurozone wide inflation target, and could set it higher for two or three years, without any treaty violation.