1. The coach issued a diktat that all team members must attend early-morning practice.

2. The occupying force ruled by diktat.

3. They are a diktat, apparently government-backed.

4. The will to enforce its diktat is present.

5. Lithuania refused to give in to the diktat from Moscow.

6. How can that be so when today's diktat is a contemptuous dismissal of the community's united protest?

7. By militant diktat no Kashmiri pays income or sales tax nor electricity or water bills.

8. Communist Party diktat has been relabelled as "macroprudential supervision".

9. Diktat is a foolish policy.

10. Credit is infused and withdrawn by central diktat.

11. an EU diktat from Brussels.

12. The Government govern not by consent or even by diktat but by spite - spite against the mining communities.Sentencedict

13. Dialogue and accord have been translated into government by diktat.

14. Stores are being banned from selling Christmas crackers to anyone under 16 because an EU inspired diktat classes them as 'category 1 fireworks'.

15. What if a very sophisticated user refuses to accept the diktat of various community distributions and wants to run a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP)-type application stack from a CD?

16. For him the concept, the history, the meaning of law made it a diktat, a ukase, a cold threat, a decree.

17. The Wenzhounese government received directives from Beijing but found that without accompanying support they lacked resources to run the economy by diktat.

18. However, this lending would have to be enforced by government diktat because the self-interest of the banks would lead them to focus on preserving and rebuilding their own equity.

19. Needless to say, his executors didn't adhere to the 500-year diktat and the American public continue to adore him regardless.

20. Is it possible to be partners when one side conducts internal and foreign policy through diktat and arm twisting, while the other values democratic persuasion?

21. Many Chinese scholars say that giving birth is a basic right and should not be subjected to official diktat.

22. Century Weekly, a magazine, said scholars and the public agreed that giving birth was a "basic right" that should not be subject to official diktat.

23. From the outset, the regime targeted women, calculating that the patriarchal culture of the country would embrace the idea of an Islamic diktat that "put women in their place."

24. The sale and servicing of Japanese vehicles is a major business, and Putin's diktat has unleashed a wave of protests.

25. After 10 days spent trying to identify those responsible, it issued what the paper called the "medieval diktat."