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Answer for the clue "Ukases ", 6 letters:
edicts

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Usage examples of edicts.

He installed his capable nephew, Francesco Cardinal Barberini, as head of the Congregation of Health, which issued policies and edicts to be enforced by civic authorities.

Instead, Brutus and Cassius stubbornly maintained that they were legal praetors, could legally issue any edicts they wanted to issue, and could not be accused of anything other than consistently working for peace, harmony and liberty.

The edicts of the Mull therefore rest not so much upon exigencies of the moment as upon fundamental theorems.

I was saying, I think we should begin with edicts two, three, and five.

His edicts when he published them were most imposing: no one would be uninspected, no one would be cosseted, no one would buy his way out with bribery, the jury roster would smell sweeter than a bank of violets in Campania.

He has not been engaged in many duels, because in the first place edicts against duelling are very strict, and in the second because his reputation as a swordsman is so great that few would risk their lives against him.

I shall at once give orders that your troops here are replaced by those of a regiment whose officers will abstain from brawling and breaking the edicts in our very palace.

There the government became increasingly isolated, issuing ineffectual edicts, oblivious to the problems of the empire.

It issued edicts that could not possibly be enforced as the government took on increasing responsibilities it could not enforce.