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plural diktats
a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor examples
a dogmatic decree or command, especially issued by one who rules without popular consent quotations examples
Whatever the pressures that have invoked the Minister's diktat, the outcome is Gilbertian.
1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291
Today, regional diktat is now supplemented (though not wholly replaced) by other means of recruiting elites.
1982, Steven L. Sampson, The Planners and the Peasants
It should be noted that Saddam's power was held up by fear and diktat.
2005, Vitaly Naumkin, Radical Islam in Central Asia: Between Pen and Rifle, page 179
Trump—according not to the paranoid fears of his opponents, but his own professed desires—would have the government’s law enforcement institutions act as political weapons, aimed by his diktat.
2018, Julian Sanchez, “Brand Loyalty”, in Just Security