"It just showed that we didn't let outside influences dictate how we felt or performed as a team," Robinson said.
Testaverde has declined to criticize offensive coordinator Paul Hackett's offense or his play-calling, and he even praised Hackett for keeping a balance in the offense and not letting "outside influences" dictate how it will be run.
So it's tempting to read the last few weeks as the culmination of industry trends of the last few years: the death of the mid-range, adult-focused film in the face of coarsening fiscal influences dictating that studios these days place their bets either very high or very low.
They disagree how much Hollywood and Western influences dictate these behaviors, as opposed to broader effects of industrialization and shifting expectations for women.
He said earlier this week that "geopolitics [now a codeword for Syria's influence] dictated that we choose between the sea or going to the Arab depth: Syria".
The prime minister "stepped over the boundary between what is a permissible exercise and impermissible attempts to influence or dictate a decision on the investigation by expressing his view," she said.
This much larger group has the combined wealth, the qualifications, the social and cultural capital and, perhaps above all, the electoral influence to dictate much of our government policy, from tax to education.
The activities of the organization are influenced and dictated more by the government(s) rather than the pastoralists.
Arguments have ranged from fears of Nato expansion, to objections over the EU-Ukraine free trade agreement, to defending the rights of Russian-speaking populations abroad, to opposing democratic processes in Ukraine, to wanting to establish a sphere of influence and dictating policy to Europe.
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