Sentence examples for dictate as from inspiring English sources

She describes the refusal to dictate as wonderful and maddening.

They seek to dictate what may be said about Israel at American colleges and universities -- and to dictate, as well, the identities of those who may say it.

It has reached saturation point; there are now no festival-free weekends left between June and September, so market forces dictate as much.

"For me it was important to keep as many balls in the court but still try to move her around and try to dictate, as well," said Wozniacki, who has won 12 straight matches and will next face Dominika Cibulkova, an unseeded Slovakian, in the quarterfinals.

"He was not letting me dictate as much as I was able to in Rome".

What if lower courts began following the High Court's lead and started for instance… instituting corporal punishments like caning as a penalty for vandalism simply because statutes in Singapore or Malaysia dictate as much?

But other goals appear to have been dictated as much as by personnel as by policy.

The recipes themselves are dictated as much by his mood as by what is in season.

Instead the loss goes into what the I.R.S. dictates as a "suspended loss," Mr. Bergman said.

Perhaps the lingering death of the FA Cup has been dictated as much by circumstances as malevolence.

The Iranian silent majority is now empowered and is in this story, and Rouhani's charm offensive was dictated as much by them as by the supreme leader.