Sentence examples for dictates as from inspiring English sources

Instead the loss goes into what the I.R.S. dictates as a "suspended loss," Mr. Bergman said.

From the outset, his lineage -- much like that of Adams -- dictates, as Hertzberg sees it, his fate.

All institutionalized religious frameworks throughout the world basically embrace these common-sense dictates as those principles necessary for the conduct of positive human behavior.

The human body consists of materials similar to those found in foods; however, the relative proportions differ, according to genetic dictates as well as to the unique life experience of the individual.

Convention dictates, as does the marketplace, that there are only so many things that can happen after boy meets girl, or even boy meets boy, as a lifetime of movies teaches you.

According to this theory, hunger motivation would serve to keep individuals close to this set point, even though the fat level maintained may not be what the individual desires nor what society dictates as beautiful or healthy.

She dictated as Lolli scribbled: Dear Daddy, How you doing?

She describes the refusal to dictate as wonderful and maddening.

But other goals appear to have been dictated as much as by personnel as by policy.

The recipes themselves are dictated as much by his mood as by what is in season.

His contribution was, as he had promised, understated, facilitating rather than dictating as he acclimatised.