Sentence examples for diktat from inspiring English sources

In the Polish debate, the issue of the Brussels diktat or loss of sovereignty has surfaced only very rarely of late.

If Ed gets in and enacts his brutal diktat about letting people afford to live in houses, Boris wrote, we may as well just bomb London flat.

I wonder if she has ever been aggrieved by the high-school diktat that says all teenagers must be thin and look like Hitler Youth in order to be popular.

But it would be good to know that guided by self-will or diktat, companies have thought about the issue.

Together the weather is a language we can barely understand; but confessional experts detect in the senseless diktat of hurricane a hymning of our sins, our stupid counterpoint.

Mr Brown now has less money than before to throw around, yet he still speaks of raising the sums spent per pupil in state schools, for instance, as if more cash, not higher standards, were the goal.A second, related, lesson is that public services cannot be improved by central diktat and performance measurement.

Mr Putin blamed America's "unilateral diktat" for the world's disorders, and accused the West of double standards and hypocrisy towards Russia, which was only "protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population in Crimea" against "neo-fascists" when it annexed the peninsula and stirred conflict in the east.

Canongate; £14.99 Peter Hessler, an American journalist and author of a 2006 bestseller, "Oracle Bones", gets behind the wheel to explore how roads, and with them cars, are changing China more quickly than any diktat from the Politburo.Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History.

The European Union has bitterly criticised America's efforts to isolate Iran with threats of legal action against European countries, and Russia and the Arab world are even less happy to follow America's diktat.

The first concerns his initial bungling of the devaluation, in which bank deposits and loans were converted by diktat to pesos at different rates.

This diktat was signed by Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, and his Italian successor, Mario Draghi, who takes over on November 1st.