ukase

• “Am I to expect tomorrow your ukase that I give up Scotch and soda or your patronage?”

  The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride

• “But no drug maker, ever, has formally and so publicly challenged the ukase of the FDA—an agency that can make or break companies and is known for punishing those who challenge it.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Race Against the Cure

• “U.S. v. Alaska, 422 U.S. 184, 190 (1975) (“in 1821, Tsar Alexander I issued a ukase that purported to exclude all foreign vessels from the waters within 100 miles of the Alaska coast”).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Russian Influence on American Law

• “At his ukase the population ebbed and flowed over a hundred thousand miles of territory, and cities sprang up or disappeared at his bidding.”

  CHAPTER 5

• “The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands.”

  Chapter 16

• “And, like his olden nights, his ukase went forth that there should be no quarrelling nor fighting, offenders to be dealt with by him personally.”

  Chapter XIII

• “It’s certainly more artful typography than that of the Economist, which goes in the opposite direction on all these measures as if following the ukase “white space bad; more words good.”

  Forbes: Note To 'Newsweek': Jesus Sells

• “But we rested, too,  inside our bedded gulag, a mutual blasphemy that was one great, unobeyed ukase, our traitorous lie as yet unpunished in any Sibirskoye labor camp.”

  Fictionaut: Soviet

• “Then he issued what Kruckman called a “ukase,” evicting all but essential personnel from the lodge.”

  Simon & Schuster: Colossus

• “Alaska, 422 U.S. 184, 190 (1975) (“in 1821, Tsar Alexander I issued a ukase that purported to exclude all foreign vessels from the waters within 100 miles of the Alaska coast”).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Russian Influence on American Law

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