Sentence examples for by dictate from inspiring English sources
By dictate, central planners created 400 natural gas filling stations, most now defunct.
Today on his radio show Limbaugh compared President Obama to Hitler Adolf Hitlerer, like Barack Obama, ruled by dictate".
If your ideological baggage has no room for workers' rights, then you will rule by dictate and fiat.
When he dislikes our laws, Obama forces change by dictate rather than seeking legal change through the political process.
A Democratic strategist aligned with the administration echoed Gibbs' remarks, arguing, "A vocal part of our base doesn't understand the legislative process and thinks we should govern by dictate.
It governs by dictating five-year plans.
Rumsfeld validated himself by dictating innumerable memos, which he calls "snowflakes," to his staff.
By dictating which apps are allowed on its devices, Apple has become a gatekeeper.
You can post directly to Facebook with Siri by dictating status updates, Mr. Forstall says.
The underlying message: Men will try to control you by dictating the limits of your pleasure, your ambition, your success.
Of course, one way it has done so is by dictating what our needs and desires should be.
