However, Michael Rosen, the children's writer and poet, expressed doubt about what he called "government diktat".
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Now pending appeals, its owners will be coerced by bureaucratic diktat to provide abortifacients.
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By tradition, though not by explicit constitutional diktat, foreign policy is the French president's preserve.
Sycophancy is said to be the party's reigning passion, diktat its chief means of making decisions.
The diktat, passed on 4 December, has also now sparked similar rules for civilian officials in Beijing.
The merchant banks now have their reward for bending to the government's diktat.
In line with the diktat, the military has now ruled out welcome banners, red carpets, floral arrangements, and souvenirs.
The move comes after a diktat from central government earlier this month that aimed to curb extravagance and tackle corruption.
"It's not a diktat as such, but we can't just accept the ideas of France and Germany, " he said of the Franco-German pact.
Tony Travers, a local-government expert at the London School of Economics, thinks that it is possible to build infrastructure without resorting to anti-democratic diktat.
The junta then suspended the convention and reverted to its more familiar mode of ruling by diktat and locking up all of its critics.
The alternative to euro-zone diktat is being abandoned to the market.
The half-hearted approach is reflected in other oddities such as the government diktat that speed cameras must be painted bright yellow, and accompanied by conspicuous road markings.
Labour's preferences are still for state control and central diktat.
While Tony Blair believes that this is best driven through by central diktat and rigid targets, in the teeth of opposition from the public service professionals, our approach will be different.
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Under such circumstances, the United States would be obliged to accept the diktat of one of the multilateral agencies spawned by LOST, a 21-nation Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
He is a maverick in a country whose financial institutions have long operated around hak-yeon, ji-yeon and hyul-yun (school, hometown and kinship ties) and government diktat on who to lend to and how much.
Yet right from the start, his method of gaining and then maintaining control over Russia's domestic scene was brute confrontation, owing more to Leninist diktat than to the compromise and consensus-seeking of democratic politics.
An early indication of the way in which this bipartisan diktat will be received in official Washington can be seen in the vacuous response of the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
After all, on 4 October 1994, within days of his storming of the Russian White House, Yeltsin issued a decree ordering the round-up and expulsion of "persons of Caucasian nationality" from Moscow, a diktat ominously reminiscent of Josef Stalin's anti-semitic actions at the time of the Doctors' Plot in 1952-53 when "persons of Jewish nationality" were incarcerated and, in many cases, eliminated.
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