Sentence examples for dictated to us from inspiring English sources

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.

"The Americans dictated to us.

"Everything is being dictated to us.

So to express this is resistance against having our subject dictated to us.

What it also means is having the rules being dictated to us to try to regain access to the common market.

"We are a city that likes to determine its own outcomes and not have anything dictated to us," Mr. Testa said.

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.

"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.

For example, predictive analytics can accurately forecast when an airplane or water system part will break and also dictate to us when exactly we should replace it to get maximum use out of old part but before old part actually breaks," Baker explained.

"Outsiders cannot dictate to us.

We wouldn't really dictate to anybody, they would dictate to us.