Sentence examples for dictated where from inspiring English sources

A hands-off approach is dictated where change is essential to the artist's meaning.

The children were not yet alive, so the passengers sang the call-and-response that custom dictated: Where are you going?

State preservation regulations dictated where the mezzanine balustrade could be cut to add a staircase, which was directly opposite the front door.

In the first instalment, a jobsworth cat dictated where animals were allowed to sit, from frogs on logs to pumas on satsumas.

During the past two decades, China has embraced a market economy and shed some of the more onerous restrictions that dictated where people could live, whom they could marry and whether they could leave the country.

He did so after seeing that the industry would have to operate more efficiently than it had under the Civil Aeronautics Board, which dictated where airlines could fly and the fares they could charge.

"You can't dictate where people stand.

The head-to-head matchups will dictate where Akron falls.

"That means they're dictating where players go," said the person involved in the talks.

Seriously, when has a government agency ever tried to dictate where a company makes its products?

"We are ending the failed system where Whitehall attempted to dictate where sites went.