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Example sentences for: ukase

How can you use “ukase” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

description of "the Stalinist aesthetics of the Weekly Standard ." How often have I, the author of nearly 20 literary reviews for the Standard , cursed as the jackbooted minions of editors Kristol, Podhoretz, and Barnes pounded on my door in the dead of night, delivering the latest Politburo ukase on the proper interpretation of 20 th -century literature.
There are, of course, precedents for this sort of intact borrowing: pogrom, ukase, intelligentsia , and muzhik for example.