Turnbull responded "Alan I am not going to take dictation from you" before saying that as a cabinet minister he did, of course, support every element of the budget.
Personally, I can't stand those columns where it's obvious the writer has taken dictation from one politician or another, getting "access" in return for taking "the line" they're given.
Coleridge spilled words onto pages like a stream in spate, Wordsworth detested writing; his sister Dorothy used to transcribe his poems and letters from his dictation.
One popular offering is medical transcription, in which companies convert dictation by doctors in America into written medical records.
Apple's Siri responds accurately to many voice commands and can take dictation for e-mails and memos.
Mr Bhat, however, said there would be no talks "at gunpoint", which did not cover the future dispensation of Kashmir the one topic India will not discuss with the Hurriyat.The Hurriyat, in the words of Muzaffar Beg, the finance minister in the new state government, "takes its cue from Pakistan, even if it does not take dictation".
In a speech in March his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, who is chief minister, pleaded with the Taliban to leave Punjab alone as his administration shared their ideology of keeping out "foreign dictation" (ie, Americans).
He made a start this week by signing up to a statement from the quartet emphasising the need for a final agreement to be arrived at by negotiation with the Palestinians, not by dictation from the Israelis.
"We will not brook any dictation from any source," he stormed when Mr Zuma's report (which has only just become public) was initially endorsed in March by a SADC "troika" that deals with politics and security.
They simply do not like taking dictation".The China syndromeWhatever the short-term outcome of the nuclear talks, they are unlikely to resolve the controversy in both countries.
The YouTube fiasco and backfiring tax fiddles, the "bottled" general election and vicious spin doctors, the dictation of immigration policy by television actresses, even the regicidal plots and resigning ministers, will shrivel under the aspect of eternity.
