Sentence examples for dictated by it from inspiring English sources

The setting for The Girl with the Cut-off Hands is a visual image, suggested by the play but not dictated by it.

Why would anyone believe that the act of pushing a child out, rather than putting it in, somehow makes you more responsible for it, or that your opinions on school legislation will be dictated by it?

As Mr. Childs interprets it, he is the lead architect -- more than just first among equals -- responsible for a coherent and original design of his own that reflects Mr. Libeskind's plan but is not dictated by it.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

The condition of a used wood stove is largely dictated by how it was used and how carefully it was maintained.

Its pulse is dictated by the narrative: it pauses, it hesitates, it bends time.

How much people weigh, this side argues, is a product of personal choice and responsibility, and cannot be dictated by what it calls the Twinkie police.

The BBC's policy shouldn't be dictated by the space it needs to leave its rivals, but by what licence fee payers want.