President Bush had ruled that the detainees were "illegal combatants" by administrative fiat.

The system was established by administrative fiat in 1982 and has never been enshrined in law.

If we decide to ration services, there are two ways to do this: through market mechanisms or administrative fiat.

By administrative fiat, the Marinović cabinet established freedom of speech and the press, which was an important step in establishing parliamentary democracy.

A legislative solution is far preferable to administrative fiat, if only because Congress is less likely to tinker with it later.

They'd first met six years ago in college, two eighteen-year-old opposites who were thrown together by the administrative fiat of dorm-room assignments.

Such long overdue changes can be enacted by administrative fiat: New York and other big states have already introduced them.

The administration has tried to enact the reforms by administrative fiat, which means litigation and delay.

President Clinton would be signing an executive order that would reinstate Super 301 by administrative fiat.

This is a fantastic change from the socialist cross-subsidy method that has kept people afloat by administrative fiat.