Sentence examples for dictate us from inspiring English sources

"But we are not allowing any person or party from outside to dictate us what to do in Bahrain".

Suppose Trichet and Schaeuble had been free to dictate fiscal policy for all of Europe, never mind the elected governments; suppose Alan Simpson were in a position to dictate US fiscal policy without that legislative nonsense.

"Israel will not be able to destroy our resistance, and the United States will not be able to dictate us their rules," the leader, Khaled Meshal, said in defiant remarks broadcast worldwide.

Another politician, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has introduced similar legislation in the House of Representatives, arguing China must not be allowed to dictate US policy in the Pacific.

Trends do not dictate us.

"We don't allow anyone to dictate us, the stories that we tell or whatnot," he said.

Though it was to us both "holy" and a "union," we were unwilling to have the terms of our matrimony framed for us, or dictated to us using "approved" language selected for us by other people.

We have a hundred people heavily armed around us all the time that dictate to us and talk to us like children.

The Czech political right, dominated at the time of EU accession by eurosceptical president Vaclav Klaus, effectively used Czech fears of outsiders' political meddling to portray the EU as "they" who wanted to dictate to "us" once again.

"Now, we let the world dictate to us where it's going to take us, instead of us deciding where we're going to go," Sandy says.

"I don't want the government to come in and dictate to us, 'This is all the water you can use on your own land,' " said Mr. Watte, 57.