EARLIER this year Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, ordered his officials, on pain of dismissal, not to stage any festivities for his 70th birthday on July 6th.
In addition, assembly members will henceforth be barred from swapping parties on pain of losing their seat-a measure which suggests that Mr Chavez doubts the loyalty of some of his own supporters.
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And the woman responds to the serpent's queries by saying that eating and even touching the tree is forbidden on pain of death.
No more settlements can be built or expanded-on pain of a reduction in American aid.
Charles Evrémonde, called Darnay, was accused by the public prosecutor as an emigrant, whose life was forfeit to the Republic, under the decree which banished all emigrants on pain of Death.
That is because Mr Chavez has created a personalised regime of government-by-live-television in which senior officials must interpret his every whim on pain of dismissal.
Congressman Devin Nunes of California has put forward a bill that will require states to move to more transparent accounting, on pain of being barred from issuing tax-exempt municipal bonds.
