Sentence examples for cannot be dictated from inspiring English sources

It cannot be dictated by national government.

America's immigration policy cannot be dictated primarily by a desire to help finance development in Latin America.

How much people weigh, this side argues, is a product of personal choice and responsibility, and cannot be dictated by what it calls the Twinkie police.

"We cannot be dictated orders by Qatar or Al Jazeera; It is rejected," he told a large gathering of supporters, many holding photos of the president.

The protesters would have liked the blunt acknowledgement by Claus Smadja, managing director of the World Economic Forum, that "globalisation is not delivering the goods and cannot be dictated by the priorities and concerns of only one part of the world".

The issue has not been resolved — Orthodox churches in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another breakaway region of Georgia recognized by the Kremlin, are still in jurisdictional limbo — but church officials in Moscow have said that canonical territory cannot be dictated by political lines.

We cannot, as a nation, allow refugee policy to be dictated by xenophobes through our political leaders.

While the underlying article must have a function (meaning it isn't a piece of artwork), the design patent protects the ornamental aspects of the design — meaning the design cannot be solely dictated by function.

"Everything is dictated from the top for short-term political advantage, everything is tactical – this cannot go on.

"It was dictated by you".

"It's dictated off coverage.