The word 'dictated' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe when something is issued or commanded by someone in a position of authority. For example: The manager dictated that we should all arrive at work by 8am.
An Orange Order spokesman said: "This preposterous decision by the Parades Commission only underlines the increasing perception that its determinations are dictated by the threat of physical force opposition to our parades.
Instead it's a land inhabited by continental-style bars and cafes, with a cuisine that's largely Asian, Mediterranean or Japanese and a decor dictated by Ikea-chic.
This used to be known as idling, but in a multi-tasking world, in which we seem to be living at a pace dictated by machines, going at human speed suddenly begins to look like sanity and freedom.
From a modest educational background (he was a student at Flint High School and then Kelsterton technical college), his choice of where to take a degree was dictated by pragmatism.
While galactically jazzed at the opportunity to see Jedi, a film I'd only experienced second-hand through action figures and a Panini sticker album, I was acutely aware that family tradition dictated a far-flung woodland walk on Boxing Day.
The force appears to admit one of the central allegations made in the May-June 1985 trial of 15 miners which collapsed, that this team of detectives dictated parts of other officers' statements, or guided or "assisted" them in making their statements.
He accepted further negotiations would be needed between Greek finance experts and the troika of technocrats from the International Monetary Fund, the European commission and the European Central Bank which has policed the Greek bailout and dictated Athens fiscal policy for the past five years.
Dr Hany El Banna, co-founder of Islamic Relief, said: "The solution is Somali, not to be dictated by the economy of Somalia, by the wealth of Somalia, by the geo-strategy of Somalia, but by the Somali people".
In March, for the first time, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, dictated the stiff terms that would have to be met for Berlin to accede to a Greek bailout.
While they deliberate, the academic community seems split between those concerned that national education policy is being dictated by an OECD statistical release with little public input and those who argue instead that politicians will always be guided by what is financially possible and politically popular, Pisa or no Pisa.
I hope more people can see that playing an active part in society should not be dictated to by what you are told you can do but by what you can achieve".
