Remember Raymond Rubican's edict, 'Resist the usual.' The only way to achieve this is to pour a strategy through an individual so it comes out personal.
Quotes about edict (11 Quotes)
He doesn't want to take time off, I know. But I have to issue some kind of edict where he doesn't show up.
If there is a conflict between the security of the sovereign state and the security of the human commonwealth, the human commonwealth comes first. If there is a conflict between the well-being of the nation and the well-being of humanity, the well-being of humanity comes first. If there is a conflict between the needs of this generation and the needs of all later generations, the needs of the later generations come first. If there is a conflict between public edict and private conscience, private conscience comes first. If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.
It's not an open-ended edict to go out and kill people. There are hundreds of thousands of verses that talk about peace.
After what we went through last year, I never wanted to be in a position where we were short of pitchers. You never have enough pitching, and while I didn't issue any edict or anything to go out and sign more pitchers, our scouts all understood that if they had any recommendations I would act on them. If you don't trust and listen to your scouts you're defeating yourself.
But this time, because of the lockout, we had the whole year to sink our teeth into it. We discussed it with players, coaches, refs and managers, and this was (the edict) to come down.
The president cannot suppress 'people power' with a superfluous and illegal edict.
We have made very clear that his fatwa (edict) against Americans is unacceptable -- and do not believe that anyone should give him safe haven,
They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then. . . . we all have them and they're a hell of a lot more invariable than nuclear fission or the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
We don't really base it around good and evil or the moral impact of the story, ... We just don't include the bad things in the story. Each one of the story lines is based on the edict, 'Would I want to read this to my three-year-old' In this world of violence, let's makes this different by leaving all that out. We just let Happy and Max do fun things.
At our 911 memorial service, when over 100,000 Canadians arrived on Parliament Hill in an outpouring of sympathy and support to Americans, prayer at that ceremony was forbidden by an edict from the highest office of Government.