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- noun Plural form of
diktat .
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Examples
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Why are we being dictated to by endless diktats from the Home Office or the latest clueless Home Secretary?
Through The Looking Glass « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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That is all the more reason why other onerous, regulatory "diktats" to business should be subjected to strict cost-benefit assessment.
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This action is the result of nu labour's obsession with equality, which has in fact made every minority group 'more equal' than everyone else, together with the vociferous 'diktats' of Stonewall and other gay rights groups, who have demanded that everybody accepts that their lifestyle is right and everyone else's is wrong!
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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In a strong message on Friday, acting chairman of Hurriyat Conference Maulana Abbas Ansari said the "diktats" of UJC chairman and Hizbul Mujahideen terror group head Syed Sallahuddin for a poll boycott were not acceptable.
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A myth about academy status is that we would be 'freed' from painful local education authority diktats.
One of the first primary academies celebrates its new status Louise Tickle 2010
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Without the diktats of the corporate bottom line driving the creative process, they will possibly even enjoy a wider variety of higher quality music.
Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010
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Oler replaced him after Blackmore left the group, fed up with the increasingly draconian diktats and apocalyptic revelations coming from the FLDS prophet.
Behind the court appearance of two Bountiful leaders lie tales of discord 2009
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They are too eager to fall in line to government diktats to run the police.
ACPO blames front-line cops for doing their job SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Without the diktats of the corporate bottom line driving the creative process, they will possibly even enjoy a wider variety of higher quality music.
Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010
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But exist they do, a volunteer force dedicated to rescuing young lovers from families who would rather kill them than suffer the social stigma of an unsuitable match, and from the khap panchayats, the notorious village caste councils that rule on who can and cannot marry and regularly pass sentence of death on those who refuse to accept their diktats on caste or gotra (another subdivision based on lineage).
Honour killings: Saved from India's caste system by the Love Commandos Gethin Chamberlain 2010
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