Sentence examples for once dictated from inspiring English sources

It's set to take flight in 2017 as the consumers – once dictated to by the industry's all-powerful designers – becomes the designers themselves.

The supremacy of water-borne trade that once dictated its location has ebbed: the cranes that dotted busy docks have given way to financial skyscrapers, trendy watering holes, "affordable" housing and excavations for the 2012 Olympics.London is lucky.

Intel, the world's largest maker of semiconductors, once dictated, by the speed and power of the chips it supplied for personal computers and computer servers, how a significant chunk of the technology industry worked.

They borrow liberally from the Social Realist painting and subdued advertising style once dictated by the former East Germany, where the artist was born in 1960 and trained as an artist.

Where healthcare was once dictated by "doctors' orders," we are now in the emerging era of "patients' directives".

Conventional wisdom once dictated that even in turbulent economic times the richest segment of the population would stay above the fray, allowing makers of super high-end products to maintain their sales.

The economy improved and homelessness dropped, but last year's economic slump has "once again dictated the need to address this," said Kevin Seaman, a Stony Brook attorney who represents dozens of schools, including Tuckahoe.

In the future, it will seem absurd that people's lives were once entirely dictated by where they were born.

It once practically dictated price; now it faces pressure at the low end from Dell and China's Huawei, and at the pricier end from Juniper and HP, which closed on its acquisition of 3Com for $2.7 billion last April.

The rhythm of the news cycle and the mood of the rival camps has – once again – been dictated by daily doses of data.

Most telling of all is the fact that once the mountain has dictated one's speed, there is nothing one can do to change it.