Sentence examples for less dictated from inspiring English sources

Senate races, however, are less dictated by national economic conditions.

"Our society is less formal, less dictated by formal religions," Mr. Isard said.

The windows more or less dictated how the furniture and objects were placed.

The car's success is more or less dictated by a web of regulations that have repressed competition.

Turner's thesis of frontier democracy influenced generations of American historians and decades of American popular culture and more or less dictated Casner and Gabriel's story about the rise of American democracy.

The sudden elevation was certainly a calculated decision by John Paul II, whose choice was probably less dictated by their shared Polish origins than by a desire to make a statement about Catholic-Jewish relations.

"They are more or less dictating, not consulting," he said.

But according to several accounts, he impressed them by doing less dictating than listening.

Since the government holds the purse-strings, it can more or less dictate terms to TEPCO.

Yet it is not clear that the Chinese military's hostility reflects China's diplomatic strategy, much less dictates it.

Mr Warsh seems to prefer the approach taken by the European Central Bank (ECB), in which the unelected and unaccountable monetary authority more or less dictates to democratic governments.