He practically dictated to the Diet an address to the crown, embodying the reformers' program.
In past years, apartment prices in Manhattan were practically dictated by buyers with huge Wall Street bonuses.
"And she sat me down, told me what was going on and practically dictated the story to me".
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".
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 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.
In fact, if aesthetics dictate purpose in this case, it's practically a piece of furniture, with a fabric-covered front inline with the rest of the Google Home offerings.
However, when state-of-the-art CT and high-quality MR scanners are utilised, both techniques are practically equivalent in the hands of experienced personnel, and local clinical configurations may often dictate which technique should be used.
But, as long as they are in office, practically everything that happens revolves around them, and that gives them the opportunity to shape events, if not dictate them.
