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What ever the decision it will have been strategic and in line with the current trend set by the Chief to show a relevant point or a dictat from the political master to ensure that appropriate funding is continued.

Drain The Lake « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

In fact, President Putin has used that word, "dictat" (ph) he feels that he's been dictated to by the United States especially, and shorthand, they're tired of it.

CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2007 2007

Very clever, very vain, very contained, she seems with her thin lips, tiny waist and meagre statements to be constantly diminishing, as if in obedience to the dictat of her mistress, the unseen Wallis Simpson, who proclaimed that "no woman can ever be too rich or too thin".

The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review 2011

The team itself were forbidden by FA dictat from containing more than one sublimely gifted attacker at any given time, and even then only if the player concerned was both bald and glum-looking.

Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay 2011

We need to remember that Islamic extremist groups do not have a monopoly on terrorism, and not for some political correctness dictat, either.

Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism Matt Kane 2010

The implementation of equality laws is patchy in Spain because the country is so decentralised; local bodies have powers to subvert or water down, or delay, central dictat.

José Zapatero's feminista agenda 2011

Why is Mr. Obama not paying attention to the piece of the Reagan legacy in the Philippines that we ll call dealing effectively with a dictat or who s lost his grip?

Phil Bronstein: Yank Him, Obama; Reagan Would Have Phil Bronstein 2011

In the other case, State v. Bailey, they create law from whole cloth by judicial dictat.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders 2010

But the recent decline in the dollar's value, to less than one-1,300th of an ounce of gold, has nothing to do with a dictat or's schemes and everything to do with Ben Bernanke's decision, at the Fed, to increase the official money supply by trillion-dollar increments.

Just Like the Real Thing Joseph Sternberg 2011

The result was that in post-reconquista Spain the king could rule by dictat, while the Lord of the Netherlands had to respect every single prerogative and immunity granted (= sold) by his predecessors over the last 700 years.

The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Wrong with This Assertion? 2010