Sentence examples for failed to dictate from inspiring English sources

He was "the tyrant who neglected to tyrannise," a "dictator who failed to dictate," a man who styled himself as a living god, yet was forever "stalled on the lower slopes of Olympus".

If the film's inner logic failed to dictate its development and ending, he would panic, which was where I came in.

The Redskins did not fall into an insurmountable hole this time, but they still failed to dictate the tempo against an offense that was missing its new linchpin, Reggie Bush.

A "loser", claimed Picabia in the years after the first world war, was the finest thing you could be; it meant you had failed to obey the dictates of a society that had lost its collective mind.

Some have suggested that his ideas were anachronistic; others that he failed to follow the path dictated by the national interests of Germany and Italy.

In retirement, Khrushchev was treated harshly by the Brezhnev regime, but Brezhnev failed to prevent him from dictating his memoirs and, eventually, publishing them in the West.

But the Tottenham playmaker failed to match Pirlo, who dictated the game and set up waves of Italian counter-attacks.

In fact, the process surrounding torture was fundamentally corrupt: the lawyers broke the DOJ chain of command to satisfy the demands of Vice President Dick Cheney (whose office had no authority to dictate Justice Department conclusions) and failed to even cite the leading Supreme Court case addressing limits on executive power.

From the start, the Church has used the mandate controversy to try to get the government to do what it has failed to do through preaching and dictates from the Pope — prevent Catholic women from accessing birth control to manage their reproductive lives so they can bear children when they choose and, equally important, participate in the work force.

For four years he worked hard to provide the Duke of Marlborough with troops and equipment for the War of the Spanish Succession against France and then resigned with Harley (February 1708) when they failed to prevent the Whigs from dictating government policy.

At bottom, the report makes clear, Enron failed to properly follow the dictates of the federal securities laws, and its executives engaged in numerous intentional acts to deceive investors, directors and, in some cases, one another.