ukases

Their program consists of a series of what they call "ukases," stated dogmatically and (with some exceptions) ably defended in their book.

A Special Supplement: Nixon's Crime Program and What It Means Packer, Herbert L. 1970

Why should these decrees, ukases, contracts between the states and the fed have any more authority than an athletic contract or marriage contract.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Congress and Obama Enticing States Further into Bankruptcy 2010

The bit about " objectification " gestures at another of Ms. Nayder ' s contexts, which is her determination to give Catherine not so much a life of her own as one acceptable to the ukases of 21st-century academe.

Not Exactly Mutual Friends D.J. Taylor 2010

Once the bill deems or passes or ukases or whatever, the issue will be closed.

Obama and the law: about that little thing called “procedure” 2010

Stating its ideology up front, it says it supports "free markets and free people" as well as "free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the ukases (edicts) of kings and other collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities."

Printing: Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism 2009

Stating its ideology up front, it says it supports "free markets and free people" as well as "free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the ukases (edicts) of kings and other collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities."

Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism 2009

A new feeling of solidarity for the defense of the motherland developed, independent of the ukases of the Party and of directions from on high, and the horrors of the war thus became mixed with a sense of at least internal liberation.

In Stalin's Trap Frank, Joseph 2009

Once the Dark Arts instructor is promoted to Hogwarts headmistress, she posts so many '' thou shalt not '' ukases that she runs out of wall space.

Patt Morrison: Harry Potter and the OTHER Dark Arts 2008

Jay Randal says: ukases you are a pathetic PAID Bush loving troll, so who cares what you think or spew on here!

Think Progress » Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’ 2006

The courts, which he's packed with his ideological cronies, tend to uphold his "Commander-in-Chief" ukases, and the Democratic majority in the Congress tends to roll over and whimper whenever he (or The Cheney) raises his voice.

Incremental Steps to "The Revolution" 2007