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The phrase "dictate the rules" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe when someone has the power to make and enforce rules. For example: "The manager of the company had the authority to dictate the rules at work."
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That means not having the United States or the Iraqis dictate the rules to these inspections".
"Bradley can't unilaterally dictate the rules," Mr. Shrum said, explaining Mr. Gore's response.
Social media shouldn't dictate the rules or what happens to a referee.
Unlike those on Qeshm, Hormuz island inhabitants are in no way wealthy, and so it will be capital brought from outside the island that will dictate the rules.
It concluded that "by dividing cyberespionage into 'bad' and 'good' activities, Washington is trying to dictate the rules for global cyberdomain, which is a public space".
"How can an unelected body dictate the rules to an elected one?" asks Hassan el-Amin, a newly elected member of the congress.
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Luda dictated the rules: "No noise.
It dictates the rules of the entire food system.
Not according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), which dictates the rules for the 2012 Olympiad.
Dictating the rules for healthful living has become a cottage industry, with Web sites, talk shows and books (and health columns like this one) devoted to the dos and don'ts of staying healthy.
In part this is because successive authoritarian leaders, from President Gamal Abdel Nasser onward, dictated the rules of artistic practice, resulting in often propagandistic work, akin to Soviet social realism or the Chinese art of the Cultural Revolution.
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