Shelby Steele

Deference has been codified in American life as political correctness. And political correctness functions like a despotic regime. It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life.

American Author

Jay Weatherill

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

Australian Politician

Wayne LaPierre

Do you want to know where President Barack Obama is ultimately headed with his gun control edicts? Look no further than his second embrace of the tyranny of Australia's massive gun 'buyback' program.

American Activist

Maajid Nawaz

A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them but can be regarded as an option for others seeking an alternative view.

British Activist

Johann Most

God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

German Revolutionary

Marsha Blackburn

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

American Politician

Jack Kingston

When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.

Tony La Russa

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

American Coach

Anne Hutchinson

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.

American Clergyman

Anthony Lewis

The Pentagon Papers case stands today as a barrier to silence by official edict.

American Journalist

Edict usually comes from someone with power, like a king, president, or organization leader.

Authority Figure

Edicts are common in historical texts, especially in descriptions of ancient or medieval rule.

Historical Context

The language of an edict is usually formal and ceremonial, reflecting its official nature.

Formal Language

Edicts have a binding nature, meaning people must follow them or face consequences.

Binding Nature

Edicts can be controversial and may not always be well-received by the public.

Not Always Popular

An edict generally comes into effect immediately after being issued or at a specified later time.

Immediate Effect

 of the science we know today -- no time for science fair, no time for playing around with things or waiting for the magic battery to show up. How do you do it within the economics that we have today? How do you do it from the power of the consumer up? And not from the power of an edict down.

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 people don't have right on purpose correct was held from exactly then and you've been and in fact this is one of the famous edicts from arthur c clarke there you go any sufficiently advanced technology yes right I never should hold from magic that's exactly right and a lot of a lot

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 Augustus ever released an edict like this but most importantly and most thing there's never been a census that ridiculous all right like because the why in the world would you have a census that required people to go back to their ancestral homeland when the whole point

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 that women should play a secondary position, a subservient position to men. So they issued an edict, in effect, that prevents women from being priests, pastors, deacons in the church, or chaplains in the military, and if a woman teaches a classroom

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 inquisitors to question the accused, and a scribe. A “Grand Inquisitor,” a member of the clergy selected by the king and queen, almost always led a tribunal. The Inquisition marked its arrival in each new place with an “Edict of Grace.”

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 Following an ancient war with robots, humanity has forbidden the construction of any machine “in the likeness of a human mind.” But rather than stifling their expansion, this edict forced humans to evolve in startling ways—

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 Edicts like, "Defer judgment," or "Go for quantity." And somehow that seems wrong. I mean, can you have rules about creativity? Well, it sort of turns out that we need rules to help us break the old rules and norms

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 Why my family and my amazing children? Looking for answers, I regret to say, is a lifelong mission, but the key to my being able to persevere is Amy's expressed and very public edict that I must go on.

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 sluggish ways that sucked the joy out of work. And I have to tell you, the future of work is not going to be created with top-down, opinion-driven edicts

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 What he did was to use political justifications to violate a religious edict.

Edict

An official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority.

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A command, order or injunction given by one having authority.

Often appears as...

Authority Figure

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