(1) Railtrack was nationalised by ministerial ukase , at a point when the market recognised its crisis had peaked and could be overcome.(2) Sport exists in a specialised world of brutal oppression, of draconian law, of fascist ukase .(3) defying the publisher in the very building from which he had issued his ukase(4) But in the face of the ukase what can he do?(5) The ukase also prohibited American and other foreign shipping from approaching within one hundred miles of the shoreline.(6) Tsar Alexander I issued his famous ukase unilaterally decreeing the North Pacific Coast Russian territory(7) 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.(8) As in the United States, the Australian History Wars are conducted by ukase .(9) Certainly no hint of a slavedriver there - although the group was careful to observe Kukes' ukase against smoking cigarettes, a rarity in tobacco-saturated Russia.(10) 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.(11) To seek rhyme or reason in such decisions is as vain an inquiry as to seek the same qualities in the ukase of a Russian Czar or the whims of an Oriental despot.(12) Why not ease up on the ukases against kids singing songs about mangers and stars?(13) 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.(14) 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.(15) But the dimwitted ukases that his book with Strunk promulgates have nothing to do with good writing or elegant style.
