How To Use Ukase In A Sentence
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Recently, one friend "was ragging me mercilessly," he recalled, after noting that Mr. Mukasey slipped into Washingtonese during his confirmation hearings.
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But the dimwitted ukases that his book with Strunk promulgates have nothing to do with good writing or elegant style.
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As in the United States, the Australian History Wars are conducted by ukase.
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Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase, at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome.
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The brusque style of Washington has managed to antagonize its best friends by means of anachronistic ukases and its treatment of allies as unruly children.
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It was, in its tri-lingual character, a sign of Israel's degradation and a flourishing of the whip in their faces, as a government order in English placarded in a Bengalee village might be, or a Russian ukase in Warsaw.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI
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Do patients fare better when they're told they suffer from POEMS, or the Crow-Fukase syndrome of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes?
Operation SMARM
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In the late 1960s comprehensive education had been imposed on local authorities by Labour with all the ruthlessness of a ukase.
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The new consolidated guidelines will, in short, integrate more completely and harmonize the standards that apply to the FBI's activities," Mukasey said.
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I can only think that, trapped between his automatic deference to prescriptive ukases and a cloudy realization that if everybody is using words in an illogical way usage must trump logic, he squares the circle by means of this oxymoron.
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I remember my daughter's 2nd grade teacher saying that she only had spelling books because she rescued them from the dumpster after the ukase came down that they weren't supposed to use them anymore.
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In Ukraine, all performances and translations of Shakespeare into Ukrainian were banned by strict ukases, thus turning Shakespeare into samizdat literature well before the Soviet period.
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Why not ease up on the ukases against kids singing songs about mangers and stars?
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In Ukraine, all performances and translations of Shakespeare into Ukrainian were banned by strict ukases, thus turning Shakespeare into samizdat literature well before the Soviet period.
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The Bush doctrine seeks to extend American ukase all around the world, whereas we ought to be seeking ways for attenuating all national sovereignties in favor of collective global decision-making.
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Mukasey could easily fire half of these "gofer" appointees and eliminate their jobs.
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A ukase in 1763 limited the composition of the Synod to three archbishops, two archimandrites, and one archpriest.
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He complains about HRC's "crapola" in refusing, through a spokesman, to say that she'll oppose Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General unless he states clearly he opposes torture by toca (waterboarding).
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