Sentence examples for actually dictate from inspiring English sources

"What happens in the coming days will actually dictate what happens in the coming decades," he added.

He added: "I think we're the only sport where fans can actually dictate some of the action if they see something going on.

Repeated jabs at the ball actually dictate when an offensive player dribbles (to relieve pressure) or turns his back to the basket (to protect the ball).

You can't actually dictate what you would otherwise type, as on Android and the iPhone; the only things you can dictate are text messages, search terms and e-mail messages.

Health plans could not, of course, actually dictate what physicians and patients could or could not do, but they could refuse to pay for particular procedures or added inpatient days in the hospital.

"I have no way to actually dictate the process, other than to use this forum to express my feelings about it," Mr. Paterson, a Democrat, said at a news conference on Monday.

(McLuhan, indeed, asserts that the channel actually dictates, or severely influences, the message both as sent and received).

In the US, evangelicals and fundamentalists have now strangled school curricula and stunted, if not actually dictated, the agendas of arts organisations, leaving the nation culturally poorer.

We have watched the women out of the corner of our eye, but the commercial draw of the men, the allure of the N.B.A., dominated, and actually dictated that we follow this so-called Dream Team.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Persistent political interference has hampered efforts to unravel the colossal fraud at Kabul Bank, with President Hamid Karzai and a small panel of his top aides actually dictating to prosecutors who should be charged and who should not, according to Afghan and Western officials and the results of a public inquiry into the scandal.

On site in Egypt, Director of Google Ideas @JaredCohen actually dictated his tweets over the phone this week, reverting back to a decades-old means of communication in order to push through information to a more modern one.