Sentence examples for dictates upon from inspiring English sources

In a press release, the event chairman, Larry Ward, said, "The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willing to trample the Constitution to impose its dictates upon the American people".

If a large segment of this community turns against it, as they did before, whether for political reasons or in rejection of its religious and ideological dictates upon society, then the very factor behind its rise will turn into the factor behind its downfall.

"Things have changed in the whole world and we can't just sit around and watch and have no forum to express our views ---the pace of change dictates this upon us," said Dr. A. W. M. Abdul Wahab as he waited to vote.

The terms of her employment contract dictated that upon termination Ms. Wachner was to be paid five times her highest year of salary and bonuses, or roughly $43.6 million.

The trust instrument, which governs the trust, dictates who controls Viacom and CBS upon Mr. Redstone's death or incompetency.

Weighted-average ratchets (broad-based or narrow) only convert a portion of Investor A's stock to the new price and the formula that dictates this is based upon how much new money comes in at a lower price and how low that price is.

Of course, such requests for goodwill were more dictates of a victor upon the vanquished; for a truly comparable act by the U.S. would have been to slit Karzai's throat in exchange for, say, a ten percent reduction in attacks by Haqqani forces.

In fact, in alliance with such agencies as the KGB, the procurator's organization was intent upon enforcing the dictates of the communist regime.

"This office does not dictate nor comment upon police policy, training and procedure.

But tradition dictated a gift upon greeting strangers, so they offered what they had.

The rule of law dictates that within a society we rely upon our police and legal system to make us secure.