diktat

Preposition: from

center: For we understand that improvements in public services cannot be driven by diktat from the center.

Converse of object

• accept: The PLO had no room to maneuver, and after some hesitation accepted the diktat.
• issue: John Prescott is issuing diktats to local authorities to construct new houses in the form of Regional Planning Guidance.
• have: We have no diktat; let's look for another option together.

Adjective modifier

• central: The frogs, you see, are under pressure, and not just from the weight of central diktats.
• ministerial: It took no initiative, no grand scheme, no ministerial diktat.
• government's: To turns around a school, as he is credited as having done, heads must ignore many of the governmentâs diktats.
• Western: Since its international humiliation over Amazon deforestation in the 1980s, the Brazilian government has learned to adopt Western diktat on environmental matters.

Converse of subject

replace: Why does local discretion continue to be stripped away and replaced by central government diktat?

Noun used with modifier

• donor: Damned by donor diktat, for Ghanaians it's a raw deal.
• state: Mr. Clarke: A similar argument could be made for limiting by state diktat the number of people born every year.