All lay down the law synonyms

verb lay down the law

• determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• announce — If you announce something, you tell people about it publicly or officially.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
• lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
• bulldoze — If people bulldoze something such as a building, they knock it down using a bulldozer.
• prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
• distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
• actuate — If a person is actuated by an emotion, that emotion makes them act in a certain way. If something actuates a device, the device starts working.
• rank — Otto [awt-oh] /ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.
• organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• array — An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
• regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• prepare — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
• adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
• sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
• locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
• shepherd — a male given name.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
• tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
• put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• systematize — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
• range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
• settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• marshal — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
• head — Edith, 1897–1981, U.S. costume designer.
• handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
• preponderate — to exceed something else in weight; be the heavier.
• outshine — to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
• overrule — to rule against or disallow the arguments of (a person): The senator was overruled by the committee chairman.
• eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
• reign — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
• boss — Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
• tyrannize — to exercise absolute power or control, especially cruelly or oppressively (often followed by over).
• domineer — Assert one's will over another in an arrogant way.