| Executive fiats and judicial indifference are the hallmarks of a decaying democracy. |
| Plant communities thrive there, from ribbons of riparian plants to sagebrush fiats, lodgepole pine forests, subalpine meadows and alpine stone fields. |
| Starting on C major, they ascend in pitch utilizing the key signatures that employ no more than four sharps or fiats. |
| It won't follow a list of fiats from government or a proclamation from computer modelers. |
| That drive was undone by the ballot box, but it is unfortunately the case that bureaucratic ordinances are usually more permanent than ministerial fiats. |
| There is omnipresent resentment at their presence in the classroom, mess halls, in the evaluation process, assignment of research topics, and not least, administrative fiats. |
