diktat

A “governance council” sits above them, whose members issue diktats and establish operating procedures — while not actually working in the trenches.

Even in 1960 such a diktat might have been, well, “understandable” in a Southern city such as Washington then was.

But now Fergie appears ready to defy the implicit diktat of the House of Windsor to stay away.

Opponents were transformed, by cultural diktat, into “wing-nuts.”