I will happily subvert a sentence's meaning for the sake of how it sounds, and then just go with whatever change results; I'll let the sound dictate the story.
Human nature – and fundamentally sound football – dictate that.
Similarly, in equi-heptatonic systems the desire for harmonic sound may dictate constant adjustments of intonation away from the theoretical interval of 171 cents.
Although it is not legally required to obtain the approval, Kodak said "sound corporate governance" dictated the vote.
Sound business principles dictated that those companies go through the fire of bankruptcy to be able to shake off some of that smothering burden before being reborn in a slimmed down form.
As described in Keller and Takahashi (2005), the binaural cues resulting from the mixture of multiple sound sources are dictated by the relative intensity of each source within each frequency band.
The sounds really dictate their own logic.
In time, his shortcomings dictated his sound.
Justice Sotomayor said that result was dictated by sound policy and was consistent with a law governing appeals.
Sound strategy might have dictated a Persian withdrawal, or an attempt to bypass Salamis and press on to the Isthmus of Corinth, before the battle had even begun, but the prestige of the Persian king was visibly at stake.
