"indirectly dictate" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation where someone obliquely controls what others do. Example sentence: The company's tone of voice policy indirectly dictates how employees communicate with customers.
Modern online markets are becoming extremely dynamic, indirectly dictating the need for (semi-) autonomous approaches for constant monitoring and immediate action in order to satisfy one's needs/preferences.
Third, the depth of removal is dictated indirectly by prescribing the force by monitoring the deflection of the relatively low-stiffness AFM cantilever.
She indirectly criticized the administration for "dictating to communities how they should run their schools," advocating instead pushing for more control over education decisions to local communities.
DealBook » Lawmakers Call for New Rules for I.P.O.'s | A group of lawmakers said in a letter to Mary L. Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, that Facebook's debut showed that investment banks could "dictate pricing while only indirectly considering market supply-and-demand," The Wall Street Journal reports.
For instance, the individual estimation of IPCL using the POP PK approach indirectly takes into account parameters that dictate the Pt transfer, such as the permeability and the effective contact area (Supplementary data S1).
For instance, under existing regulations, "a foreign national shall not direct, dictate, control, or directly or indirectly participate in the decision making process" of a corporation or other entity engaged in election-related activities.
Though broadcasters, which are subject to some government regulation, have complied with similar rules for several months, newspapers and magazines are not regulated and have been fiercely critical of any suggestion that a rule backed by a government agency could dictate what they must print, even indirectly, or block their access to sources of information.
The stronger moments here are the simpler ones, in keeping with the dictates of the Shaker religion, which "X" indirectly evokes.
"Content," he says, "will probably get dictated to some degree, either directly or indirectly, by the owners".
We therefore propose that effects of ecosystem engineering (acting primarily on a local scale) and variation in abiotic conditions (acting on larger scales, e.g., hydrodynamic gradients along the Dutch coastline) strongly interact to dictate the distribution and fitness of engineering species, and indirectly, the diversity and structure of associated benthic communities.
