Sentence examples for that dictated that from inspiring English sources

Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers were working on a musical called Away We Go!, which broke the already slightly cracked mould that dictated that musical comedies should aspire to the condition of elaborate line-ups of leggy chorus girls adorning idiotic love stories peopled by caricatures with balloons for brains.

Partly inspired by the February 1848 uprising in Paris, Batavian citizens began to challenge the authorities; one of their grievances was an 1842 decree that dictated that positions in the upper echelons of the Dutch administration could be held only by those who had received the appropriate certificate from the Royal Academy in Delft.

We were as self-righteous and fraternal as cops, sustained by an ideology that dictated that the more obscure the band, the better.

She was exiled from Queen Victoria's court for defying the ridiculous moral code that dictated that a woman must endure in silence whatever her lord and master dealt her".

In 1986, it voted to allow civilian appointees to a board that investigates police misconduct, disregarding a 1966 referendum that dictated that any members of such a civilian complaint review board be full-time Police Department employees.

When anatomical competence was complete, it was still the abstraction, the pattern, that dictated that his subjects be nude; for it is certain that the average Greek dressed for everyday life and for battle and that only in the exercise ground or the racetrack was the naked body freely revealed.

Daryoush Haj-Najafi, a senior editor at Complex UK, thinks it's indicative of a sort of inverse snobbery, one that "dictates that carrier bags make you look like less of a good wage slave".

I think that dictating that "everyone is a winner" may spare feelings but does little to build long-lasting confidence in one's own abilities nor self-awareness of their weaknesses.

The hand will be the thing that dictates that".

I watch it less than I should, if there is a criterion that dictates that you should".

There appears to be some kind of modern genetic law that dictates that people of presidential timber can produce only very attractive children.