How to Use diktat in a Sentence

diktat

noun

• The company president issued a diktat that employees may not wear jeans to work.
• For the Randian faithful, this pair of diktats have withstood the test of time.
  — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• Both defenders and the critics start from the premise that government diktats are the only variable here.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020
• Following the diktat of the programmer to maximize the game score, the algorithm did so and figured out the rules of the game over thousands and thousands trials.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2016
• The higher minimum wage appears doable — thanks to the city’s prosperity, not the diktat of the vanguard of the revolution.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• An earthquake in Utah can take a factory offline as quickly as a diktat from Beijing.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
• Washington had gotten used to issuing diktats to South Korea - and will have to relearn old habits, Paal said.
  — chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
• Even though Trump controls two branches of the federal government, the third branch—the judiciary—will not bow to his diktat.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017
• Some in Washington want to take health insurance choices away from workers and replace them with the diktats of politicians.
  — Avik Roy, Twin Cities, 20 June 2019
• No wonder tens of thousands of parents have put their children on waiting lists for charter schools that are free to hire and fire teachers on the merits, not by union diktat.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• His fighting back against this diktat helps make the character more than just a passive interrogator.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 12 Oct. 2017
• Nothing brings Chinatown together quite like the sense that the city’s leaders are governing by diktat.
  — Esther Wang, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2021
• The first is the nature of top-down diktats about supply, which lack flexibility and therefore tend to generate volatile outcomes.
  — The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
• Theaters, alas, can’t overcome the six-foot rule, that social distance diktat pulled from a hat by some boob public-health lifer whose idea of culture is online solitaire.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
• It’s hard to imagine a more highhanded elite dismissal of public opinion than Mr. Mattarella’s diktat.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 May 2018
• This column is holding out hope that demands from consumers rather than diktats from bureaucrats will chart the future of social media.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
• The diktats of social realism do not allow for the supernatural on stage.
  — Cynthia Haven, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Some workers at Tesla, for one, have tried to unionize, while many white-collar workers at the big Wall Street firms initially resisted return-to-the-office diktats last year.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 12 July 2023
• As long as this Russian diktat prevails in the occupied territories of Ukraine, no citizen is safe.
  — Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2022
• This is where the High Court is likely to be crucial over the next 20 years as progressives use executive power to rewrite the law by regulatory diktat.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• But her death also released him, psychically, from the vanished world of the fin-de-siècle black élite, with its asphyxiating diktats.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• For many, India is just too vast and various ever to succumb to some unitary nationalist diktat.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• His diktat was an extraordinary usurpation of Congress’s power of the purse, which is why several states are suing in federal court to stop it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• An ecological diktat that could signal the end of French gastronomy, even French culture!
  — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• But the idea that Iran, which was cooperating with the nuclear deal before the U.S. violated its end of the bargain, will accede to any of these diktats is a mirage, as Pompeo surely knows.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 May 2018
• And the courts should strike down the order as an unlawful effort to discriminate against Muslims by executive diktat.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 29 Jan. 2017
• At the same time, policy is now being driven by economics, not government diktat.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• Legally, Adobe’s grammatical diktats are not worth a photoshopped image of its CEO riding a unicorn.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Bowser is far from the first official to apparently flout her own pandemic diktat, and each new story like this invites public revolt.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 2 Aug. 2021
• With all due respect to Warren, opening the Biden era by stiff-arming Congress and ordering all sorts of big policy changes by presidential diktat could knock the legs out from the Biden presidency.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024