Word: edict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone's on the same said here," he says. "We want our TFs to be as well prepared as they can be, regardless of any edict from the administration...
Leave it to the administration to shoot down the prospects of fun. Eighty-eight first-year Assassin players will have to find amusement elsewhere, thanks to an edict from the Dean of Students' office...
...convention's suburban hotel, a desultory troupe of 750 mostly middle-aged guests drank beer and mineral water -- a far cry from previous years, when you could count on 5,000 former and current flyers to show up. Active-duty personnel stayed away because an ominous Pacific Fleet edict had warned that no officer could attend in uniform or join in public discussions, and the 20-odd young pilots who did appear were far outnumbered by the media and seemed as fearful as they were disconsolate. What was there to do? "Listen to a bunch of old geezers talk about...
...Catholics, who have a tendency to view the Catholic church as some sort of authoritarian Stalinesque entity, may be surprised that an edict ordering clergy to stifle dissent will cause such commotion. There is a tendency to judge Catholicism from what the pope says, rather than from what the majority of American Catholics do. Yet consider, for example, the following responses to Humanae Vitae...
Reception of this latest papal encyclical will be divided. Nothing new in that piece of news--except that the very nature of the edict would preclude such division. If the pope was hoping to stifle the issues of authority raised twenty five years ago by Humanae Vitae, he may have only sparked a new surge of active dissension...