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But the Government still has many of the same powers it had under the emergency decree.

Legislators from every opposition party spoke against the emergency decree.

More than half of the deaths recorded occurred after the emergency decree went into effect.

In some cases, the President can issue emergency decrees.

Even the Army - the King issued an emergency decree.

We have also asked about the situation in the 17 regions of Italy that are not affected by the emergency decree.

He said the emergency decree was issued to prevent the violence from spreading to other parts of the country.

No British or Indian military aid has come since the emergency decree.

Some democratic leaders, such as the presidents of Mexico, have the constitutional authority to issue emergency decrees.

It is just not on, using an emergency decree suddenly to remove all Islamic fundamentalists from office, as the government wants to do.

What an emergency decree would entail, specifically, is not clear, but it might well stop short of martial law.

The curbs were imposed under a 20-month-old nationwide emergency decree and took effect immediately.

The anger has been compounded under the emergency decree.

A8 Peru has issued tough emergency decrees to combat terrorism.

The president is a plenipotentiary authorized to rule by emergency decree in times of crisis.

It is widely expected that the Government will renew the two-year-old emergency decree.

They were among 20 prisoners who had refused food since Jan. 23 to focus public attention on political detainees being held under an emergency decree.

Only Natal province still remains under the emergency decree.

Under the emergency decree, the police have wide-ranging powers to detain people for opposition activities.

Others have been detained for months on minor or trumped-up charges under emergency decrees.

The law also broadened the powers given to security forces under a 1981 emergency decree, including the right to detain people without trial.

I will rule by emergency decree until a new constitution can be written which permanently abolishes republican forms.

Monitoring groups estimate that more than 30,000 people, 10,000 of them children, have been detained since the emergency decree was proclaimed last June.

From that point onwards, he governed as dictator by emergency decree with absolute power.

The raid was conducted under a government Emergency Decree.