I will not be dictated to by some idiot in the personnel department.

He dictated several letters to his secretary.

Tom dictated a letter to his secretary.

He did what his conscience dictated.

All others had to adapt to the policy dictated by the US.

He dictated it aloud, saying, 'I must cheer them up!'

The life of the city was dictated by the mine.

The same applies, of course, to sanctions dictated by Western powers on their own.

On , he felt better and dictated a letter to Catherine before collapsing once more.

Is it all dictated by advertisers and salesmen who are inventing needs?

Yet in the end, an agreement between America and Europe dictated that the leader of the IMF should be a European.

Sometimes they take on an assignment dictated from above, but that s only occasionally.

Theoretically you have courts in practice the courts adopt decisions dictated from above.

It is natural that it has fallen upon the European Union to be the motor of the development of Southeast Europe. But the implementation should not be exclusively dictated from Brussels.

Having adopted the liberalizing reforms dictated by the Washington Consensus, Latin America was thought to have turned the corner.

The aim is to economically force the domestic population to accept prices dictated by private capital, especially in terms of salaries.

Although forward momentum will be slower than many anticipate, the changes exacted by WTO membership will be profound because China's future will be dictated or determined more than ever before by factors beyond Beijing's control.

Worse, Leung pushed forward an unpopular plan to introduce patriotic education to Hong Kong, stoking fear among students of a China dictated brainwashing.

The knowledge we have from books and dictated syllabus may open our imaginations, but does not open the door to experience.

To ensure that its economy s performance is no longer dictated by the availability of foreign aid, Pakistan must undertake some fundamental restructuring.

But the markets have not been reassured, because Germany dictated the Fund s terms and made them somewhat punitive.

In any case, it is clear that happiness is not dictated by one s job title or bank balance.

Ecuador's election demonstrates the growing strength of Indians and other groups estranged from governments that adhere too closely to policies dictated from Washington.

A largely non existent European policy toward the region has been dictated by the absentee monopolists of policy in Washington.

Both countries are now behaving as if power is a zero sum game dictated by the old rules of realpolitik.

Now the Philippines is faced with a strategic Hobson s choice accept the new Chinese dictated reality or risk an open war.

That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People s Republic of China. The following day it could allow its decisions on Chechnya to be dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin s advisers.

For a moment in the spring of 1918 after the Bolsheviks signed a German dictated Carthaginian peace a German victory seemed possible.

cease its activity entirely, and simply leave the Cypriot market in the event of decisions which violate the law, dictated by politics.

Time and again, Europe paid a high price for policies of compromises with evil that were dictated by economic interests or the illusion that evil can be appeased and will disappear of its own accord.

ATHENS On July 12, the summit of eurozone leaders dictated its terms of surrender to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who, terrified by the alternatives, accepted all of them.

Dadin, who was sentenced last December to three years under a new law that criminalizes repeated breaches of public assembly rules, reportedly dictated the letter to his lawyer and addressed it to his wife.

The European Stability Pact for the Balkans is a decision not dictated by economic considerations but a result of political, strategic, and moral considerations.

This strategy is dictated by the fact that oil prices are more volatile and therefore more destabilizing for the budget than fluctuations in GDP.

The second issue concerns the unbalanced intellectual property provisions (TRIPs) of the Uruguay Round of trade talks, dictated by America's pharmaceutical and entertainment industries.

Repeatedly, voters have thrown out incumbents, dissatisfied with the direction of the economy only to have the new government continue on the same course dictated from Brussels, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

But another explanation of recent developments in the region begins by noting that post communist reforms were largely dictated from outside, as a condition of admission to the European Union.

At the beginning of August, information appeared in some media sources that Trump Jr. s statement about the meeting with Veselnitskaya was practically dictated by Trump Sr.

Although forward momentum will be slower than many anticipate, the changes exacted by WTO membership will be profound because China's future will be dictated or determined more than ever before by factors beyond Beijing's control. Moreover, WTO membership will not only prevent backsliding but will raise fundamental questions about national sovereignty and powerful debates about the amount of foreign engagement China is willing to tolerate.

In more traditional days, not so very long ago, when God reigned supreme and most people still turned to their priests (or ministers, rabbis, etc.) for moral guidance, sexual behavior was often dictated by power.

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To be or not to be?

To be or not to be.

Parents can tell many a tale about how, with the beginning of school, their children s playful approach suddenly changes, as they must now focus on objects dictated by the curriculum.

Though India had experienced annual real GDP growth of more than 8 for several years, growth has slowed since 2010, to less than 5 in 2013, owing to a populist shift in policies dictated by Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi.