Sentence examples for dictate a decision from inspiring English sources
The prime minister "stepped over the boundary between what is a permissible exercise and impermissible attempts to influence or dictate a decision on the investigation by expressing his view," she said.
Occasionally, expediency dictates a decision.
While a taxpayer can wait until Oct. 15, 2011, to make the recharacterization and installment reporting decision on a 2010 conversion, there are some practical considerations which may dictate an earlier decision date in order to minimize tax cost.
It was a shocking example of politicians dictating a prosecutorial decision.
Still, sometimes rationality dictates a unique decision nonetheless.
It has been proposed that signal duration of Erk1/2 activation could dictate a cell-fate decision (40), with transient Erk1/2 activation leading to cell survival and proliferation and sustained activation with nuclear accumulation of activated Erk1/2 transmitting antiproliferative signals (40- 44).
But don't dictate to others about a decision that is deeply personal and thus a private choice.
A decision dictated by good sense, perhaps, but by raising taxes they're making a political choice.
This is less of a plot device and more a decision dictated by necessity it's an unauthorised production and therefore doesn't have the legal rights to use lyrics or music from Morrissey and The Smiths' back catalogue.
The last truly successful "brokered convention" - where party elders literally met in a smoke-filed hotel room to break a deadlock and dictate the decision -- came almost a century ago in 1920.
