fiat
Example Sentences
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“Yet, by executive fiat, the President ordered the Secretary of Education to ‘take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department’ ...
From Los Angeles Times
But Pip rebukes Walker for “changing the temperature” of every room by “tyrannical, psychosocial … fiat.”
From Los Angeles Times
Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, Miller said that the California politicians were attempting "to control America’s entire immigration policy by fiat."
From Salon
Make no mistake: In effect, these 6,300 living, breathing individuals have been declared “dead” by Trump administration fiat.
From Los Angeles Times
His main concerns: the “dismantling of the social safety net and governing by fiat.”
From Los Angeles Times
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