"Under the provisions of the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, they were paid compensation payments the size of which were dictated by the rules of the scheme taking into account their salaries and length of service.
Catherine's writings, all of which were dictated, include about 380 letters, 26 prayers, and the 4 treatises of Il libro della divina dottrina, better known as the The Dialogue, (c. 1475; Eng. trans. by Suzanne Noffke, 1980).
Germany was forced to ask for an armistice, the conditions of which were dictated by Marshal Foch in the name of the Allies on Nov. 11, 1918, at Rethondes.
What varied over time was not the goal but the means required -- which were dictated, in turn, not by the American government but by the weakness of its South Vietnamese ally, the strength of the enemy and the deteriorating situation on the ground.
A senior Russian general has revived fears of a new Cold War by threatening Poland with a possible nuclear strike, as the President of Georgia bowed to the inevitable and signed a ceasefire the terms of which were dictated by Moscow.
Too often I have seen policy makers make decisions about guns which were dictated not by the scientific evidence but rather by emotion and special interests.
