A ukase was decreed that every family will pay higher taxes to support the czar's family. From LearnThat.org.
There will be much stamping of lofty heels at this ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917] Reference
On the 3d of March, 1861, the emancipation ukase was published. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
He gives his reasons in the ukase wherein the change is announced. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
But at last, in 1842, Nicholas issued his ukase creating the class of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Special bonus: Use of the words “ukase” and “discombobulate.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sentencing Guidelines and the Jury Trial Clause post–Blakely:] Reference
Constitutional amendment than have it made effective by Presidential ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
A seven-plus year delay in response to an ukase from the vice president post 9/11 strains credulity. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: Did the CIA Assassinate? What We Need to Know] Reference
That icon there was a gift of former serfs, when they had been freed by ukase of the tsar-liberator. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Yet, even here, that old timidity of Nicholas nearly spoiled what little good was hidden in the ukase. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Rumor has it a ukase came down from on high instructing the Clerk's office the date and time had been changed. From Wordnik.com. [Council reorg date mysteriously reset] Reference
For can any one be weak enough to believe that the ukase of emancipation originated in the magnanimity of Russia?. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
He is here ex-officio, of course, with only Alderberg, Zelanoi, and ourselves, on the matter of the forestry ukase. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
However, if such is the case, then it is clear that socialism by its very nature cannot be decreed or introduced by ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Making the History of 1989] Reference
In other words, the EPA wants to impose via regulatory ukase what Congress hasn't been able to enact via democratic debate. From Wordnik.com. [The Lawnmower Men] Reference
While the plenipotentiaries were discussing the terms of peace, autocracy launched a ukase calling for a consultative assembly. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
I have, however, met more than one Siberian exile thus hideously disfigured, no doubt belonging to the time anterior to the publication of the ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The culverin, ukase, and door-tender were all fired. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)] Reference
The Lease was a strange forbiddance, a ukase issued by. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of Christmas Stories] Reference
They will want to dismantle everything, and rule by ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He issued an imperial ukase ordering the sick sailors to get well. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference
I., in his ukase of September, 1827, perpetrated a very fine piece of. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
Since the publication of the ukase abolishing serfdom, there has been. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
You knew she has been awfully nice to us in spite of the oil stove ukase. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906] Reference
The unfortunate governor's ukase had precipitated a general debauch for all hands. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
By an ukase he ordered that all children throughout the country should be educated. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar] Reference
Am I to expect tomorrow your ukase that I give up Scotch and soda or your patronage?. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii] Reference
Paternalism, paying no more heed to our Constitution than if it was the ukase of a Czar. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891] Reference
When I showed my ukase, and demanded to see my relations, they simply showed me two graves. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
Finally, in the closing days of the year, he issued a ukase excluding wines, silks, and similar luxuries from. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)] Reference
More words have been uttered by these silenced folk on behalf of other silenced folk than you can shake a ukase at. From Wordnik.com. [Dawg's Blawg] Reference
This ukase decreed that the Sudan Government was empowered to draw from the Nile as much water as its needs might require. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
Even when I was in Russia it was not allowable to doubt the infallibility of a ukase, and to do so was, equivalent to high treason. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
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