Noun : The Board of Education issued a diktat that all employees must report an hour earlier.    From Dictionary.com. 

A "diktat" -- let's start spelling it right -- is an "authoritative or dogmatic statement or decree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

There was no appeal against the Earl's diktat, which is evidence of the vast powers he had over the hoi polloi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference

The new "diktat" lets the FBI conduct investigations up to a year without having to show suspicion of criminal activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing Marjorie Cohn's "Cowboy Republic"] Reference

The 'diktat' comes after the party General Secretary.    From Wordnik.com.  [NDTV News - Top Stories] Reference

Extra security at SBI exam centres in view of MNS 'diktat'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

This initiative presumably is designed to offset the global News Corp "diktat".    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

1 New forms are also a kind of diktat - it is not only the pedants who are telling us what to say or write.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: A SCREENWRITER TALKS SENSE.] Reference

I missed the diktat that said it is Time for Hillary.    From Wordnik.com.  [SurveyUSA: Hillary Ahead By Six Points In Ohio Primary] Reference

"UN diktat" likely to perpetuate the crisis by supporting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Doctors fees would rise or fall based on market forces not government diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform: What About the Doctors?] Reference

They seem to prefer a government by Presidential diktat; not a nation of laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shayana Kadidal: Newt Gingrich Pulls a Trent Lott] Reference

The UN partition proposal of 1947 is in many ways a similar Great Power diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The Internet will only expand based on competitive principles, not socialist diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet Wrecking Ball] Reference

Besson described the resolution as 'political diktat' and said Paris would not comply.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Immigration Minister Says Roma Deportations to Continue] Reference

They need a cause to justify their diktat and imposition of one regulation upon another.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

No court can be considered legitimate if its judges and prosecutors submit to political diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice, Interrupted] Reference

Debt can be canceled with the flourish of a pen, but global poverty can't be wiped out by diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgiving And Forgetting] Reference

A federal commercial paper backstop is essentially a diktat to ban all risks in corporate borrowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stopping the Panic] Reference

Now, by fiat, by diktat, the court has neutered its building, insulted the public and yielded to fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closing main doors to the Supreme Court sends troubling message] Reference

Why not just offer an alternative explanation: surely we want reason to win out, not brute state diktat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

But what they can't accomplish legislatively, unions are now trying to achieve by diktat from the courts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certifying Parents] Reference

A detailed knowledge of Geography is very dangerous as they might form ideas inimical to one-world diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference

Sweden has the voucher system, so the curriculum responds to parental demand rather than ministerial diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [We should take lessons from the Swedes in education] Reference

Countries that mandated universal high-speed connectivity (aka socialist diktat) have all zoomed ahead of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Karr: Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality] Reference

The diktat to "eat locally" is wrongheaded if you're not considering the bigger environmental picture, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallowing Eco-Hype] Reference

The recent treaty between Czechoslovakia and the FRG sets the seal on the liquidation of the disgraceful Munich diktat.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOVIET-CUBAN DECLARATION SIGNED IN HAVANA] Reference

We have no socialist diktat going on, and we are falling behind other countries like crazy in broadband speeds and connectivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timothy Karr: Telcos Turn to Stalin for Help Against Net Neutrality] Reference

At this time, Rajan's diktat was clear: let the criticism go before the event, but once the CHOGM Retreat starts, no more of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press] Reference

The Home Minister Sitaula's ultimatum and diktat to agitating Terai factions is likely to fuel Madhesi problem from bad to worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election not Possible without Reliable and Credible Security Arrangement] Reference

The President's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it to a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Jenkins: In Support of Hedge Fund Managers] Reference

Repeal immediately that Soviet-style diktat that every American must, upon pain of federal penalties, purchase health insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starting to Heal This Sick Bill] Reference

We are keenly struck by your fortitude in refusing to bow to the diktat of the regime regarding whom you should and should not meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [OPENING ADDRESS TO THE CONFERENCE ON "WHITES IN A CHANGING SOUTH AFRICA", CONVENED BY THE FIVE FREEDOMS FORUM AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS, LUSAKA, JULY 1, 1989(1)] Reference

Cuba, Peru, Panama, and other countries now exist which do not agree with Washington's diktat and which are defending their sovereignty.    From Wordnik.com.  [MEETING OF CUBAN-CHILEAN FRIENDSHIP] Reference

To add insult to injury, it arrogantly asserted its right to impose what amounted to a neo-colonial diktat on the government of Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

When America's Founders revolted against "taxation without representation," this is precisely the kind of kingly diktat they had in mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reckless 'Endangerment'] Reference