Fiat Sentence Examples

Subsequently very important reforms were introduced, not by the vote of an assembly, but by the fiat of the autocratic power.

God is to him an absolute despot, who declares a thing right or wrong from no inherent necessity but by his arbitrary fiat.

For a nation cannot simply be created by bureaucratic fiat.

As a liberal, I fear that some of our rights could thus be curtailed by ministerial fiat.

Factional reserve lending can be abolished by legislative fiat.

It is rich, ornate, yet hardly florid, distinguished by splendid effects of light and shade, obtained by a far bolder use of projections than had hitherto been found in the somewhat fiat design of Venetian façades.

It consists generally of a fiat, upright leaf standing on stems.

This in turn caused the Volkswagen to collide with the Fiat being driven eastbound by Mr McLaren, who died at the scene.

He also issued a fiat ordering state employees to break the Ramadan fast and restricted the number of pilgrims performing the Hajj.

There is an affirmation of divine fiat, or instantaneous creation.

Secondly, no homeowner could claim private right to a location value enhanced by public administrative fiat.

Their grievances against Boyer's government included corruption, nepotism, suppression of free expression, and rule by executive fiat.

Since the end of colonialism, those rules cannot be made imperial fiat.

He will have surprised his audience by his claim that no social improvement can be achieved purely by government fiat.

Militant reformers would suppress antiquities looting by international treaty, court order, state fiat, and the moral artillery of shame and guilt.

Its a Seat Marbella which is just a fiat panda really.

I think I need to scoot down to the Fiat dealer for a look.

The loss of sleep to a person of Newton's temperament, whose mind was never fiat rest, and at times so wholly engrossed in his scientific pursuits that he even neglected to take food, must necessarily have led to a very great deal of nervous excitability.

For to regard a particular decision as the effect of the "fiat" of a self or will unmotived and uninfluenced by the idea of a future object of attainment seems to be equivalent to the simple statement that the choice was made or the decision taken.

This design change may also foreshadow the tastes of the upcoming overhaul for the Fiat, which is expected in 2015.

Uttered formulas abound; yet they are not forms of address, but rather the self-sufficient pronouncements of the magician's fiat.

The most hard-pressed countries paid soldiers and purchased supplies at home in fiat (token) money unbacked by gold.

Seinfeld was driving his 1967 Fiat on Skimhampton Road heading toward a major highway when the brakes on his vintage car failed.

The collection is now, of course, minus one 1967 Fiat.

Fiat also announced that seven seats on Chrysler's new board would be held by Fiat representatives.

Two vehicles are tied for 5th place in terms of overall sales - the American Ford Escort and the European Fiat 124.

The Ford Escort achieved 20 million sales from 1968 to 2003, and the Fiat reached the same number from 1966 to 2010.

Since the Escort achieved the same number over fewer years, it could be argued that puts it ahead of the Fiat; however, the Fiat is still being sold and could conceivably surpass the Ford Escort by a very wide margin.

On the fiat 29th Francis Joseph declared war, and the next day 1859 his troops crossed theTicino, a move which was followed, as Napoleon had stated it would be, by a French declaration of war.

Sometimes also a viaduct consisting of a series of arches is preferred to an embankment when the line has to be taken over a piece of fiat alluvial plain, or when it is desired to economize space and to carry the line at a sufficient height to clear the streets, as in the case of various railways entering London and other large towns.

It is rich, ornate, yet hardly florid, distinguished by splendid effects of light and shade, obtained by a far bolder use of projections than had hitherto been found in the somewhat fiat design of Venetian façades.

It is not necessary that the bishop himself should personally institute or collate a clerk; he may issue a fiat to his vicargeneral, or to a special commissary for that purpose.

Nearly $600,000,000 of " fiat money " had been thrust into the channels of commerce in addition to $346,000,000 of legal tender notes that had been issued during the Civil War.

Blessed is Pat man fiat haft not gone in fie counsell of wicked men, and in fie weye of sinfull men hap not stonde, and in fie chaire of pestilence sat not.

Mahrattas wear fiat red pagris, with a small conical peak variously shaped and placed.

The type pages were placed on a fiat bed of solid wood or stone, and it was quite a labour to run this bed into its proper position FIG.

So long as libertarians contend that what alone possesses moral value is unmotived choice, acts of will of which no explanation can be given save the arbitrary fiat of individual selves at the moment of decision, it is not difficult for determinists to exhibit the absurdities to which their arguments lead.

The portion of the duchy lying east of the Elbe is mostly a fiat sandy plain, with extensive pine forests, though interspersed, at intervals, by bog-land and rich pastures.

Since true activity consists in knowing what one does and how one does it, I cannot be the author of any state of which I am unconscious; I am not conscious of the mechanism by which bodily motion is produced, hence I am not the author of bodily motion ("Quod nescis quomodo fiat, id non facis").

You've never seen a fiat like this on the streets.

It lies in a fiat, sandy plain, 110 ft.

He now put the Arthurian legends aside fiat a time, and devoted himself to the composition, in 1862, of "Enoch Arden," which, however, did not appear until 1864, and then in a volume which also contained "Sea Dreams," "Aylmer's Field" and, above all, "The Northern Farmer," the first and finest of Tennyson's remarkable studies in dialect_ In April of this year Garibaldi visited Farringford; in February 1865 Tennyson's mother died at Hampstead in her eighty-fifth year; in the ensuing summer he travelled in Germany.