In the late 1960s comprehensive education had been imposed on local authorities by Labour with all the ruthlessness of a ukase. |
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Sport exists in a specialised world of brutal oppression, of draconian law, of fascist ukase. |
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As in the United States, the Australian History Wars are conducted by ukase. |
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Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase, at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome. |
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A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest. |
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The ukase also prohibited American and other foreign shipping from approaching within one hundred miles of the shoreline. |
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It's one thing to overturn an election by means of a judicial ukase, a partisan parody of a trial, or an orgy of gerrymandering. |
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To seek rhyme or reason in such decisions is as vain an inquiry as to seek the same qualities in the ukase of a Russian Czar or the whims of an Oriental despot. |
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Back here in the present, though, the drug czar's latest ukase, ninety-five stupagesng pages long, was issued last week. |
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I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase? |
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The final edict, or ukase, was a compromise between the plans of the liberals, the conservatives, the government bureaucrats, and the landed nobility. |
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The planters, he explained in a letter to Lincoln, would accept emancipation by ukase in preference to being compelled to enact it themselves in a new constitution. |
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The empress issued an Ukase issued on April 17, 1732, ordering a new expedition. |
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An Ukase, it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire. |
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A further Ukase on December 27, 1732 concerned the organization and the formal commissioning of the expedition. |
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Another Ukase on June 2, 1732 obligated the Russian Academy of Sciences to prepare instructions for the scientific component of the journey. |
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