Managing people by threat or diktat does not produce efficient or profitable business.
It is a programme and is not designed to be a diktat.
Faced with the diktat imposed on it, nearly all its members have bowed.
They will not accept diktat from above, even if "above" is the local town hall.
Local elections, manifesto pledges, thought-out local plans and programmes are all to be subject to a central diktat.
Good management and environmental consciousness are part of a frame of mind fashioned by economic necessity and personal conviction, not something procured by administrative diktat.
He spoke of the importance of collaboration and partnership between local education authorities and schools, but this is, in a sense, partnership by diktat.
We do not agree to such a diktat and such barbarism.
