Sentence examples for practically dictated from inspiring English sources
"And she sat me down, told me what was going on and practically dictated the story to me".
In past years, apartment prices in Manhattan were practically dictated by buyers with huge Wall Street bonuses.
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.
Still, a spirit of generosity and a desire to share practically dictates that excess will rule.
While the city would entertain proposals for reusing the structure, economics practically dictate its replacement, since zoning rules allow a building as much as two-thirds larger.
What we want is for this totally dysfunctional system to change, where Gazprom can practically dictate the price for gas on the Turkmen end and sells it for nearly three times that amount in Europe".
The easy availability of rice dictated that practically all distilled spirits were made from one of three types of rice: regular rice, glutinous rice, or broken (cracked) rice.
So dictated the Endangered Species Act of 1973, perhaps the most noble-minded of the environmental laws of the 1970's -- and perhaps the one that has turned out to be the most practically cumbersome and politically controversial.
Success dictated widespread imitation.
Location often dictated content.
