After dictating what she had given him, and he had memorised, to one of the friends or assistants who came to write for him, he set about cutting extensively, and revising.
He will then have to prove at last whether, after dictating the supposedly logical formula of "no negotiations under fire" and using that position to veto negotiations with any gun owner in the Middle East, he is actually capable of bringing peace and security to Israel.
After years of dictating take-it-or-leave-it terms in a skyrocketing rental market, landlords are now being forced to negotiate one-on-one with their tenants and are agreeing to monthly rent reductions and upgrades to bigger or more desirable apartments in the same building, for the same money.
The Constitution, after all, dictates that Congress, and not the president alone, should decide when we go to war.
Recently popularized by the Steve McQueen film of the same name (2013), was originally published in 1853 after being dictated by Solomon Northup to a white lawyer and legislator by the name of David Wilson, who maintained to offer "a faithful history of Solomon Northup's life, as [I] received it from his lips".
"The people are not letting an oligarchy, undone a second time after Brexit, dictate its choices!" The French people will also take their turn expressing themselves in a few months, he added in an interview with French television channel LCI, in reference to France's upcoming elections.
By tradition, county party organizations play a significant role in the election of the speaker, in some instances essentially dictating votes, after horse-trading involving committee chairmanships and patronage jobs.
"After 20 years of dictating the terms, international donors are now getting used to the process being Somali-led," said Nicholas Kay, the UN's special representative of the secretary-general.
Welles was so deeply entangled in the radio shows and other activities and a romance with Dolores Del Rio at the time the script was being prepared that even when he came to dinner at Victorville, it was mainly a social visit; the secretary didn't meet him until after Mankiewicz had finished dictating the long first draft.
It's these voices after all that are dictating the legislation while bipartisanship and compromise, the center's official rap, distracts us.
Sometimes I feel pretty certain that they actually are all the same person, sitting in a wicker chair somewhere with black feathers petting cats and smoking cloves while dictating novel after novel to their chunky interns typing high on Mountain Dew.
