N.B.A. coaches did not adjust their free-throw targets even though changed rules dictated changed strategy.
But his task has been complicated by politically dictated changes to the consumer-price index, which puts inflation at about 7%.
With lawsuits against the N.F.L. pending, it is possible that the courts will dictate change.
Economic forces are dictating change – last week has seen a historic independent school, Liverpool College, announce it will become an academy.
How the US moves forward will dictate change around the globe.
The Dalai Lama stresses that he cannot simply dictate change -- the whole community of senior Tibetan masters would need to agree to change the traditional rules.
But they said the general, a former Pakistani Army commando, was showing a familiar tendency to alienate potential allies by dictating changes instead of building consensus.
Ms. Hudson, Mr. Ganis said, has been raising questions since she took over in an attempt to understand the academy, not dictating changes in practice or policy.
Even if that will again likely trigger outrage among the players, Tiriac has a clear view on who should dictate changes in tennis.
The purpose of the gathering was not to dictate changes; Mr. Almodóvar only asked for a few tweaks in the script, like wiping out references to the Spanish dictator Franco (whom he reviled).
TCP-DAA dictates changes to the sender as well as the receiver.
