ukase
Example Sentences
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The first wave of rediscovery had ukases and prohibitions—Alec Wilder wrote off essentially all of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and almost everything self-consciously “jazzy” in Gershwin.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
Ever since Bernard Berenson issued his ukases against it, Florentine Baroque has been considered mostly worthless baublery.
From Time Magazine Archive
There came out long tables of nondeferrable occupations, threats about "work-or-fight," 48-hour-week ukases.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1901 Svinhufvud became a judge under the Czarist regime, fought Imperial Russian ukases until 1914, when he was banished to Siberia.
From Time Magazine Archive
And now N. Romanoff himself is gone to Siberia, and there is no knouting or giving in knoutage; no pogroms or ukases or any other check on the ladies.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
