Word: edict
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...asked to defend why he was raising revenue by levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have a foul...
Bruskewitz, one of only two U.S. bishops who forbids altar girls to assist at Mass, is the first American hierarch in more than 30 years to order a mass excommunication--an edict that prohibits Catholics from receiving the sacraments. His action has sparked dissent not only from area parishioners such as Jean and John Krejci, a former nun and former priest who said they would ignore the order, but also from church-law experts like Father James Coriden of Washington Theological Union, in Silver Spring, Maryland, who called the bishop's action, "harmful, wrong and canonically invalid...
...edict from the dining authorities, handed down just before the semester began, states that any person without an ID will not be admitted to meals. The rationale is to protect the cards, suddenly made more precious than gold by the advent of Crimson Cash...
...bombing attacks on the Serb ammunition dumps two weeks ago were an act of desperation. U.S. and European leaders knew the Serbs were likely to shell cities and take hostages in response. But the Serbs had been shelling Sarajevo anyway and were brazenly violating a nato edict excluding heavy weapons from a 12-mile zone around the city. The allies believed they had to do something, anything, to stand up to them. The new show of allied firmness may turn out to be no less desperate and no more effective...
...seemed that the consolation game was just a matter of going through the motions, fulfilling some edict from the hockey gods laid down long...