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How to use ukase in a sentence

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In the late 1960s comprehensive education had been imposed on local authorities by Labour with all the ruthlessness of a ukase.
Sport exists in a specialised world of brutal oppression, of draconian law, of fascist ukase.
As in the United States, the Australian History Wars are conducted by ukase.
Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase, at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome.
A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest.
The ukase also prohibited American and other foreign shipping from approaching within one hundred miles of the shoreline.
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.
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.
Back here in the present, though, the drug czar's latest ukase, ninety-five stupagesng pages long, was issued last week.
I knew a stunned plunge of disappointment and a bitter anger. What right had he to issue such an arbitrary ukase?
The final edict, or ukase, was a compromise between the plans of the liberals, the conservatives, the government bureaucrats, and the landed nobility.
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.
The empress issued an Ukase issued on April 17, 1732, ordering a new expedition.
An Ukase, it appears, has been issued by the Emperor Alexander, to facilitate the introduction of calimancoes and other Norwich goods into his Empire.
A further Ukase on December 27, 1732 concerned the organization and the formal commissioning of the expedition.
Another Ukase on June 2, 1732 obligated the Russian Academy of Sciences to prepare instructions for the scientific component of the journey.
Examples from Classical Literature
The ukase against the beard was soon followed by one against the caftan, or long cloak, the old Russian dress.
And he prepared the ukase condemning his son to banishment in Uralsk, then kissed the Czar's hand.
So long as he lives, perhaps, no ukase will silence the Hatti-scherif of the padishad beyond the Arpatschai.
Am I to expect tomorrow your ukase that I give up Scotch and soda or your patronage?
By an ukase he ordered that all children throughout the country should be educated.
The emperor made no difficulty about it, and issued a ukase to that effect.
The protest was heeded by the Czar and the ukase was rescinded.
By this ukase the Russian Empire loses nearly one-half of its territories.
He gives his reasons in the ukase wherein the change is announced.
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