Sentence examples for dictated something from inspiring English sources

That came in handy when I dictated something about Twitter, and Dragon consistently refused to capitalize it.

"It's not something that's really going to dictate something, but what are you going to do about it?

"I think Big Brother dictating something to local jurisdictions is a big mistake, because they will balk at it," she said.

Booze There's no way you can miss out on booze when it comes to a Christmas, and our hot weather dictates something cold, crisp and sharable.

"I generally don't like it when someone imposes something on me, dictates something to me or orders me around — how to live, how to dress," Ms. Estemirova said.

The announcement "doesn't change much, especially since they have enough capital, but it's never good to have a regulator dictating something," said George Emanuele, an analyst for the asset-management unit of PNC Bank in Philadelphia.

Or imagine trying to dictate something and having to correct a quarter of your work after the fact.

Even though what they dictate depends on my particular desires in the situation, the fact that they dictate something does not depend on any desire – in contrast to the dictates derivable from weather facts (Verheggen 2011: 563).

I couldn't let what other people thought I should be doing with my life dictate something that I knew I needed to do.

A second theory is that although people may not be working with a full deck of information and beliefs, their preferences are dictated by something, and that something is élite opinion.

But there was something else dictating it, something more personal.