Sentence examples for diktat without from inspiring English sources

Polly Toynbee's article on the independent sector treatment centre programme states that "all were centrally commissioned by diktat without local consultation" (Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation, 20 October).

Perhaps it would be far more meaningful to this nation, that this young republic, in responding to one of the world's oldest civilizations in a gracious way, by being of help, but without diktat, in making our wheat available to the 16 million Egyptian families that are sustained by the Government's subsidized bread program.

Karl Marx described high finance as "the Vatican of capitalism," its diktat to be obeyed without question.

The consensus settles on how to foster an improvement culture without top-down diktat.

This was a health-and-safety diktat, as apparently wearing sandals without socks slightly heightens your risk of hurting your feet.

Housing policy will be devolved to local authorities.Tony Travers, a local-government expert at the London School of Economics, thinks that it is possible to build infrastructure without resorting to anti-democratic diktat.

Selling retrenchment, when it is truly needed, will be hard enough politically without it coming as a German diktat.

The decision to press pause on reforms means that there is little he can say publicly, without falling foul of David Cameron's diktat, that this is the time to reflect and by implication, reconsider the sweeping plans for change.

This sees healthcare professionals download the app and sign up using their NHS email address, without the need for a central diktat.

Off-the-shoulder tops should have been one of those ephemeral items, an idea, a flight, but they've become a summer diktat and in shops, for every vest or tee, there's a variation without shoulders.

Withdrawn at whose diktat?