Fiats

The imposition of their restrictive fiats is to set back the individual rights of women decades, if not centuries. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It also most pi-o - bably underlies the numerous little "fiats" and valleys which border the north side of the range, and which make some of the prettiest farming sites in the country. ❋ Unknown (1771)

Missing is the brick by brick accumulation of government mandates, fiats, taxes and regulations that slowly strangle an economy already teetering on the brink, the unintended consequences of each new government intervention calling for ever more. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The fundamental problem is that in the last 10 years truly market-conforming structural reforms have all but stalled and the policymakers have become addicted to administrative fiats and financial mobilization to grow the GDP. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Darwin had devoted himself so whole-heartedly to replacing divine acts and fiats by chance and selection, that he might as well have gone the whole way back to Epicurus and declared for the eternity of matter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An 18-member board will decide how and how much providers should be paid, and the bill gives regulators the power to force private insurers to accept these fiats. ❋ John E. Calfee (2011)

You and I should have to pay people for their time, based on what they are able to command in a global market, not what the government fiats. 30% unemployed at the minimum wage level. 3% unemployed up at $150K. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Housing is part of his official portfolio as vice premier, yet although state fiats have slowed the upward spiral in real-estate prices, urban apartments are still unaffordable for most Chinese. ❋ Willy Lam (2011)

Which is one of the things I'm doing wrong, in terms of not respecting my process, and buying into other people's fiats about How Writing Is Done rather than, you know, sticking to what works for me and always has. ❋ Truepenny (2008)

I'm making a distinction between say, the level of Harper Collins publishers, and their "bosses" at News Corp. The bosses are the ones issuing the fiats, not the publishing professionals--with the possible exception, in my experience, of Random House who have gotten increasingly difficult about DRM and wanted ebooks with any of their content, even if it's a tiny percentage, to be locked down with ridiculous user-hostile and support-hostile DRM. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The word is that generic advice on important matters, news of improbable scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, dubious fiats on the subject of maintaining optimum bodily health -- essentially any amorphously authoritative declaration whatsoever -- can be treated as gospel by the intended recipient, no question about it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because their usage rules have so little to do with language as it is spoken or has been written by some of our better authors, they seldom feel the need to check some simple facts before uttering their fiats. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Maybe I'm "biased" having married a non-citizen who remains so, BUT under the MCA as interpreted by liberty-destroying courts, she clearly has zero constitutional rights as against the executive's detention fiats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet in the past couple of years, these politicians have come to see themselves as part of the same club, where hardball political debate has supplanted civil war and legislation is hammered out, however slowly and painfully, through compromises — not dictatorial decrees or, for that matter, the executive fiats of U.S. occupiers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bloomberg's high-handed, one-size-fits-all fiats might be good for raising the standards of the city's worst schools, but he's failing it's best ones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the same time, it did nothing when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke used fiats to commit "$5 trillion worth of new money, loan guarantees and loosened lending requirements," according to Politico - all while he refused to tell the public who is receiving the largesse. ❋ Unknown (2009)