Sentence examples for dictates of state from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Pines, a deputy chief of the general litigation division of the New York City Law Department, said in a statement: "We are disappointed that Justice Gans ignored the clear dictates of state law, which provides a Charter Revision Commission preference on the ballot.

As sovereign nations they have every right to enact and implement their own laws and tribal laws may not always follow the dictates of state law because oftentimes they are constructed around culture, spirituality and traditions that far outdate state law.

That is the seeming ability of people to dismiss reality by creating a virtual world that conforms to the dictates of the state, or to their personal interests, either in benefiting from the state or surviving its terror.

As in many parts of Montenegro, tribal and clan loyalties outweigh the dictates of the state.

Hence in today's Turkey, where one has the freedom to choose between the bar and the mosque, many choose the latter — based on their own consciences, not the dictates of the state.

The intimate plein air sketches made surreptitiously in the early '70s when Liu was a student in her native China are lovely, earnest, and quiet acts of rebellion against the aesthetic dictates of the state.

These bills would pit a physician's professional obligation to the patient against the political dictate of the state, an untenable position.

It was also partly dictated by Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher's trip to Asia at the end of this month to meet with foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian nations.

One poignant vignette describes vagrants being forced into re-education through reform: the official report noted that "there are even some small children who cry all the time, begging to be allowed to go home". The effect is fascinating: it brings to the fore a variety of actors at a local level who sought to implement the dictates of the new state, often without scruple or wisdom.

Then there are the nation's public schools, where young people are being conditioned to mindlessly march in lockstep to the pervasive authoritarian dictates of the surveillance state.

The only difficulty is that word is dictated by the secretary of state.