Sentence examples for by dictat from inspiring English sources

Alas, the project was cancelled without notice or explanation by dictat from "Ottawa" and after much effort had been put into its organization,.

Campbell found it ironic that Dacre should be concerned about threats to press freedom in Britain when seen in the context of the problems of working for the Macedonian media, where journalists face arrest and newspapers have been shut down by government dictat.

A style dictat from Tom Ford.

There is regime and dictat and law.

And the bullying aspect is obvious: it's a dictat from on high.

And how Sure Start develops in the future is not for national dictat but for local choice.

One thing: a single proclamation; a dictat that required no pandering to public opinion or consultation with a focus group.

The implementation of equality laws is patchy in Spain because the country is so decentralised; local bodies have powers to subvert or water down, or delay, central dictat.

What I see happening is an end to national dictat and the emergence of bottom-up clarity, diversity, integrity, and sustainability.

Very clever, very vain, very contained, she seems with her thin lips, tiny waist and meagre statements to be constantly diminishing, as if in obedience to the dictat of her mistress, the unseen Wallis Simpson, who proclaimed that "no woman can ever be too rich or too thin".

BY BLOOD, by Ellen Ullman.