How To Use Dictated In A Sentence

And of course the guests and limpets also had to be depilated, washed, and have their hair dressed in an order dictated by protocol. Wildfire
The effective level of tax then is dictated by government outlays.
This was not an easy decision. It is, however, a decision that we feel is dictated by our duty.
He said the company had always had two move workers between the two bases depending on where the work was, but now circumstances dictated closure of the Scalloway workshop for the time being.
However, if the most recent 50 years in the history of war have truly been dictated by ideological instead of resource motivations, the period would represent a unique aberration.

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Ruling the country as his own personal fiefdom, he has imposed placemen in key positions of power and dictated policy. Times, Sunday Times
We poured our own drinks, dictated which songs should be played and pretty much did whatever we wanted.
Circumstances dictated that they played a defensive rather than attacking game.
Strategic aims and circumstances have traditionally dictated campaign concepts.
The president has dictated some letters to his secretary.
The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic.
Dresser's style was never dictated by dogmatic theories, but had a general affinity to the art of the early English Middle Ages and also suggested his admiration for Asian art.
The building is orientated towards the north, as dictated by the topography, with the main entrances to the east and west.
No person of a strong character likes to be dictated to.
The great increase in the dimensions of modern class-rooms was dictated by physical hygiene; the ambient air space is measured by "cubature" in relation to the physical needs of respiration; and for the same reason, lavatories were multiplied, and bathrooms were installed; physical hygiene further decreed the introduction of concrete floors and washable dadoes, of central heating, and in many cases of meals, while gardens or broad terraces are already looked upon as essentials for the physical well-being of the child. Spontaneous Activity in Education
Federal funds have to be used as dictated by Washington.
For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather.
Mrs Jellyby, sitting in quite a nest of waste paper, drank coffee all the evening, and dictated at intervals to her eldest daughter.
The Holtham Commission, one of the most thorough reviews of the distribution of public expenditure in the UK, concluded that if the formula used to apportion public expenditure in England were applied to the devolved administrations, Wales would receive nearly £400m more per annum, and Scotland around £4bn less, compared with the apportionments dictated by a creaking Barnett formula. We are still a nation divided by shameful economic injustice | The big issue
Moral of story: regardless of what the Mexican constitution might say, one's experience in purchasing land or building homes is dictated by whatever local authority one is dealing with. Visa Requirements for Building in Mexico?
Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters.
It presumably influenced word choice in the original, since the poet uses a variety of words e.g. eoten, thyrse to refer to Grendel, so they were presumably sufficiently close in meaning to do duty for each other as the metre dictated. Old English gods and myths: Eotens
The pastor called in his secretary and dictated a letter to Scott saying he and the elders would meet him.
That makes editors toe the line dictated by interests financially controlling the publication.
In England, France, and generally on the Continent notions of legislative supremacy dictated that the popularly elected parts of government were not to be restrained by appointed judges.
This is a world where lives, character, tastes, moral capacity, sexual preferences, etc., are more often than not dictated by genetic makeup.
Soviet policy was dictated by conventional considerations of national defense, not international revolutionary strategy.
We also made it clear that both dose and frequency should be adjusted as dictated by serum concentrations.
The logistics of mounting such a show dictated that only artists from the first six years of the project be invited - all forty four of them.
The structural preference of lipid mixtures for the lamellar or hexagonal phase is dictated by the minimization of molecular free energies of the component molecules.
The more I read this passage of the report, the more I wondered if it had been dictated by Bob Diamond CEO of Barclays and former head of its investment banking arm BarCap, rather as the TGWU's Jack Jones rewrote Barbara Castle's proposed secret ballots for strike action. Yet again, a chance to rein in the bankers has been squandered | Will Hutton
The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
It's Valentine's Day but fortunately my wife and I both find the idea of dictated romance unappealing.
The Lava revisionist group openly capitulated to the Marcos regime and misrepresented it as representative of the national bourgeoisie, as one interested in “noncapitalist development”and as one trying hard to free itself from a U.S. dictated policy of “neocolonial industrialization.” Introduction to Philippine Economy and Politics - Jose Maria Sison CPP
Those photons are said to be circularly polarized, and their precise path is dictated by the molecule that sets them spinning.
But De Vaux was influenced only by his general prejudices, which dictated to him the assured belief that a wily Italian priest, a false-hearted Scot, and an infidel physician, formed a set of ingredients from which all evil, and no good, was likely to be extracted. The Talisman
While a vocal segment of public opinion expressed fear of becoming too closely aligned with the United States, the onset of the Cold War dictated otherwise.
Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch. USATODAY.com - Nets sweep road set from Pistons
They were pooped, but consuetude dictated that they remain upright for another 30 minutes.
The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread.
My OOS was really bad around then, so I dictated a text message and Eleanor punched it in for me.
But, aside from them, my departures from the "literal" which have been obelized by Mr. Nabokov (I hope he has to look up that word) were dictated by the desire to do justice to Pushkin in preserving some poetic tone. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
The skip pass completed, every defensive player moved with player movement and flight of the ball as dictated by the rules.
I would hate to believe that this agenda is dictated by racist considerations or the colour of the skin.
Today nearly all, more than 90% of poultry growers, survive on the terms dictated in unfair production contracts crafted by the likes of Tyson, Perdue and Pilgrim's Pride. Dave Murphy: Farmers Look for Justice in the Poultry Industry
In the former, the pastor or bishop or pope dictated terms, and the faithful responded or were punished.
The director dictated to her secretary.
The wording of that label conformed with-in fact, was practically dictated by - FDA requirements. The Corner
So Jeremiah called his trusty scribe Baruch and dictated all his messages. Saints & Scoundrels of the Bible
The legs of his pants end above the tops of his shoes, a fashion preference dictated by the hours he spends ankle-deep in wet grass.
And, as it happens, my verdict on the material collected here is distinctly mixed; but I do not think it a verdict dictated solely by personal predilections.
In more recent times, grinding poverty forced villagers to marry off their daughters at a young age because society dictated the girls were a financial burden.
The Japanese form of primogeniture dictated, for the issei generation of women, that the transfer of familial power and property was from husband to first-born son.
Policy is not dictated from above and there is no descending chain of responsibility and authority.
Opening his eyes halfway, Raeyn laboriously pulled up an electronic mail window on his computer and dictated a message to Antony, providing an outlet for his disquietude and tension.
I freaked out over the “baby bunny in the forest oh LOOK baby bunny is dead blood everywhere” stories that daughter wrote (dictated) and illustrated in preschool. Janie’s Got A Gun | Her Bad Mother
Japan, despite its post-war success, is still extraordinarily insular nation, even compared to China and Korea; this is partially a result of the inward-looking mentality fostered by a national policy whose external aspect is essentially dictated by the American protectorship. Matthew Yglesias » Bush and Asia
When we take our vacations is very much dictated by Greg's work schedule.
Equally worrying, the board structure dictated by co-determination saps good governance.
The whirligig of fashion trends dictated that the look of Zandra back in the Seventies is exactly the look of 2002-gypsy flounces, boots and floaty hippie blouses and dippy hemlines.
If we are to believe the Fashion Diva in The Devil Wears Prada, fashion -- even the clothes that ordinary people wear -- is dictated from the top down. Archive 2008-02-01
Glennon and Holmes reared up on the referee: ‘We're not going to be dictated to by television,’ Glennon told him.
I dictated an article to a newspaper copytaker not long ago, which included a reference to a 'field of barley'. Times, Sunday Times
The massive publicity dictated a response from the city government.
The perspective of three-dimensional objects in the two-dimensional image is dictated by the viewing geometry and the camera.
Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated. Miss Billy's Decision
We also made it clear that both dose and frequency should be adjusted as dictated by serum concentrations.
Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod.
The massive publicity dictated a response from the city government.
In this way the city grew much like the annular rings of a tree, with successive perimeters being added as population growth dictated.
Desperate, he hired a stenographer and dictated a very self-reflexive story about a man whose dual obsessions - gambling and a woman named Polina - become tangled.
At first the growth of a child is dictated by biological needs.
The lives of peasants are dictated by the arduous and endless cycle of their crops.
The choice of computer is dictated by our special needs.
If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed. The Age of Innocence
These spans are dictated by the coursing of the arches: the aim is to achieve high quality masonry with the height of the arch, from the intrados at the spring point to the extrados at the key-stone, contained within the height of two courses of earth blocks. Chapter 7
He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death.
Samarcand to cedared Lebanon, show that Keats had not got over his boyish taste for sweet things, and reached the maturity and gravity of appetite which dictated the Miltonian description. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
This was not an easy decision. It is, however, a decision that we feel is dictated by our duty.
He dictated a memo to his secretary.
The director dictated to her secretary.
The 'natives' are a heterogenous mixture of various breeds, introduced from time to time for different purposes, and allowed to cross and recross, breed in-and-in, and mingle as chance or convenience dictated. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
It was almost as if she had dictated it verbally and then had the transcription written up.
I refuse to be dictated to by you.
This was not an easy decision. It is, however, a decision that we feel is dictated by our duty.
But the decision to exit might be dictated by necessity more than bad faith.
The behavior and clinical manifestations of infectious diseases also might be dictated by the same phenomenon.
Then I realized that the the form of the final copy was sometimes dictated by unsophisticated dolts.
The best jestbook in the world is that which he dictated from memory, without referring to any book, on a day on which illness had rendered him incapable of serious study. Is Shakespeare Dead?
Instead, public utterances are invariably dictated by self-interest, political expediency, and/or ideology.
He dictated a report to his secretary
His dress was of blue petersham, looking neat and new, the short coat buttoning square across his breast; and a tall hat set oddly enough on a head evidently not accustomed to the fashion that dictated such a covering. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family
"Rather bizarre, this room, " I dictated into my tape recorder.
In Nineveh, carefully negotiated agreements dictated where the Kurdish militias, or pesh merga, would be stationed around the polls, along with the local and national Iraqi police and the army.
Jewish law dictated that every seventh year all debts should be cancelled and all slaves freed.
We are told that Jeremiah dictated his words to Baruch, his scribal secretary.
As authorized by statute the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, finding that existing low field prices for gas were resulting in economic and physical waste, issued orders fixing a minimum price for natural gas and requiring the Cities Service Company to take gas ratably from another producer in the same field at the dictated price. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
Considering this information, it is conceivable to propose that the transition to seizure can be arrested by specific perturbations dictated by the known dynamics of the epileptogenic areas.
As a result, they dictated that archaeologists could dig up bones and skulls, but insisted that they would have to rebury them within two years "in an accepted place of burial" – a cemetery – while the excavations would have to be screened from the public. Burial law is threatening archaeological research, say experts
The wording of that label conformed with -- in fact, was practically dictated by -- FDA requirements. Undefined
In politics, even what may appear to be insanity is ultimately dictated by a definite objective logic.
It is dictated, legislated on all levels, with the activities of the human, the natural and the divine all comprehensively proscribed and prescribed by this latter-day god of wisdom, emulating his prototype in "Enki and the World Order". Archive 2006-02-01
However, goals in Workplace 2000 will be dictated by competitive require-ments and corporate strategy.
The teacher dictated to the whole class.
This is not to say that Americans have lost their idealism or their belief that international relations should be dictated in part by moral principles - hardly.
Bat Ye'or defined dhimmitude thus (my emphasis): dhimmitude [...] represents a behavior dictated by fear (terrorism), pacifism when aggressed, rather than resistance, servility because of cowardice and vulnerability. Archive 2008-07-01
Laws about toxic emissions, like membership of regulatory bodies, have been dictated by industry lobbyists.
The movements of the thumb are dictated by the saddle-shaped articular surface of the base of the first metacarpal, which articulates with the trapezium.
These attempts to extend the influence of what was called freethinking and philosophy, were carried on, as we have hinted, with a caution dictated by the timidity of the philosopher's disposition. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
What I can say, though, it is that the calls dictated a clear path one way or the other for the teams on the field. Christina Gagnier: When the Refs Don't Make Clear Calls: The Supreme Court and the Unclear Path for Innovators
The character representation of the real number is dictated by the specified format.
The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist.
The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist.
As a result, they dictated that archaeologists could dig up bones and skulls, but insisted that they would have to rebury them within two years "in an accepted place of burial" – a cemetery – while the excavations would have to be screened from the public. Burial law is threatening archaeological research, say experts
Cintron's hooks, uppercuts, and overhand rights dictated the fight and the win.
Each word was dictated, then said in a sentence, then spoken again for the child to print.
Roh will also challenge the chaebol, the Korean conglomerates that have dominated Korean economic life and dictated much of its politics as well.
So much is now dictated from the EU, WHO and UN, globalisation dictates the state of the world economy more than ever too. Poltical Language ( Ask the Focus Group )
For those who believe God dictated every word in the Bible, these laws should be as valid today as they ever were.
Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters.
His nurse took pity on him and agreed to write a letter for Daniel as he dictated the words, the last letter from a dying soldier to his family.
Born in 1968 in Bamako, the country's capital, Sangare witnessed her mother and other women suffer under the accepted practice of polygamy, and she was determined not to be dictated to by men.
The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
The film's budget dictated a tough schedule.
A sacrament must be instituted; it is no part of moral worship, nor is it dictated by natural light, but has both its being and significancy from the institution, from a divine institution; it is his prerogative who established the covenant, to appoint the seals of it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Later, however, changing tastes and pressure from temperance advocates dictated that absinthe be diluted with water, preferably sweetened.
Consequently there is a change in excitation and the motor starts to accelerate at a rate dictated by the load parameters.
In the good old days of mix-tapes, the length of a home-made compo was dictated by the length of the tape. Don’t point that thing at me « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
The mother's sorrow, I suggest, is partly a denial of her own destructive phantasies towards her child, a repudiation dictated by the superego which, however, does not lead to repression.
I think that inbreeding is dictated by the structure of academia, at least in economics. David Colander on Graduate Study in Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The same logic that suggested using water for heat dictated using sun for light.
In a world seen by many as being dictated by US foreign policy, there is plenty to be angry about; to protest against; and to be rebellious over.
In January the newspaper unions ended the walkout on terms largely dictated by management.
To ensure that the Pentagon did not reinterpret his decision, Mr. Obama dictated a six-page, single-space" terms sheet "explicitly laying out his troop order and its objectives," according to The New York Times. Woodward Book, 'Obama's Wars', Spawns Cracked Reactions
The conviction that the strong are bound to prey on the weak, as dictated by the law of the jungle, is incompatible with the principle of competition.
The need for resultative complements is dictated by the fact that most Chinese verbal morphemes themselves only encode the meaning of the action phase but not the result phase.
In fact, it could not change its plan as it was set in stone, dictated by EU directives.
The teacher dictated in Spanish to her class.
According to Roux, Parnes submitted an invoice using words dictated by Roux.
That was indeed the weak point now of all his defences against whatever commands might be put upon him by his master, as we may now call the vampyre, although after all it was but the usual dominion of a strong mind over a weak one, for there was not so much in reality for the sexton to be afraid of as his own guilty conscience dictated to him. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
This situation, or tendency, initially dictated by the terrain the wedge of the Pripet Marshes, was considerably exacerbated by two additional factors. Deathride
the dictated terms of surrender
Reading on, she could picture the scene -- the two old men toiling with pathetic earnestness over the task of preparing that letter; here and there, the words only partially deleted by lines run across them, were evidences that in his flustration under the master's vitriolic complaints, old Dick had confused comment with dictated matter -- and had included comment in his unthinking haste to get everything down. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
This is usually dictated by the need for a flat area immediately next to the house to act as a sheltered sun trap.
The uniqueness of any protein is dictated by the number, type, and sequencing of the alpha-amino acids that compose it.
Right, so after one of these suckers and only one, on account of the moderate alcohol consumption as dictated by the party poopers, some tension is alleviated.
At least once a week we were tested on our ability to copy correctly a literary passage dictated to us.
The film's budget dictated a tough schedule.
The third principle is that the Koran is the word of God dictated to Muhammad through the archangel Gabriel.
I'm getting more and more convinced State transportation policy is being dictated by ST's subarea equity imbalances. Sound Politics: Balterdash
I do not want my health care dictated by a 21 year old government appointee that majored in political science. Experts debate proposed 'big brother' medical council
Equally worrying, the board structure dictated by co-determination saps good governance.
It describes a world in which electrons, quarks and the like are point particles that move in a manner dictated by the wavefunction.
Alas, Triana confesses, chuckling as he retakes his stool, he can't remember now what lines the master dictated, nor whether they are in the script of the current production. Jorge Ali Triana brings Gabriel Garcia Marquez tale to GALA Hispanic Theatre
It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world. Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newlands part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed. V. Book I
While Paris and Berlin are eager to repair frayed transatlantic relations, the Europeans do not want to be dictated to by Washington.
Many found it difficult to give accurate figures as the livestock year dictated two very definite peak work periods.
Western tradition dictated that that authority should be paternal.
The president has dictated some letters to his secretary.
For example, Office 4.0 and 95 had signficant beveling as dictated by the style of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, flattening in Office 97, 2000 and XP, followed by the introductions of gradients in Office 2003 and 2007. Do Outlook 2010′s Design Changes Make Sense? | Lifehacker Australia
The crucial choice - of non-intervention, sanctions, or war - will ultimately be dictated by national interests alone.
A single motor powers a dense array of aluminum and plastic gears, cams, and levers that move vertical supporting rods up, down, and sideways in research-dictated paths.
He fought in the trenches when he had to, beat-up the brawlers, out-thought the boxers, could beat anyone at their own game, but mostly dictated the action, even when he was backing up.
We decided that if the game was on the line and something dictated it, the streak was supposed to continue.
But when necessity dictated, the patrol was adept in suppressing rebellion without outside help.
Convention dictated that dangerous physical action is the part of heroes, not heroines.
Consequently internal policies were often dictated by the external situation.
Once realized, this consciousness leads to an awareness of something higher than physical needs, emotional desires, and survival demands dictated by hormones or organs.
A woman who decides not to observe the rituals and customs dictated by religion has always been seen as a harbinger of conflict, disorder and pain within a family.
Your relationship with publishers is dictated by your audience. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Writers are dispensable; readers are not
From the tenor of the letters, it is clear to the Court that a parent dictated them.
Today, no local autonomy, democratic decision, or national or cultural freedom is to interfere with capital's effectively-forced "interdependency" dictated by GATT/WTO and growthism. GROWTHISM & The Ruin Of Everywhere
These spans are dictated by the coursing of the arches: the aim is to achieve high quality masonry with the height of the arch, from the intrados at the spring point to the extrados at the key-stone, contained within the height of two courses of earth blocks. Chapter 7
In the end, operational necessity dictated we remain on station.
Cintron's hooks, uppercuts, and overhand rights dictated the fight and the win.
The lives of peasants are dictated by the arduous and endless cycle of their crops.
Access to education was clearly dictated by one's position in the social and gender hierarchies.
That's why suits and monochromatic colors are so popular because the concept of work as dictated by the western civilization is about conformity.
Like the wolf or the deer, travellers' actions are dictated by practical necessity rather than political idealism.
Absolutism represents the classic traditions of Judaism and Christianity that argued God dictated every word and religious symbol/message in the canonical sources.
Information was gleaned from operating reports dictated for the surgical procedures and available for review.
For many animals, the sex of an individual is dictated solely by its chromosomes. But for small alpine lizards, gender isn’t so cut-and-dried.
An aggressive policy may also be dictated by economic circumstances.
The plaintiffs have testified that some of those letters were dictated by the defendant.
The colour of a pigment is dictated by the way it absorbs certain parts of the spectrum that make up visible light and reflects others.
Animals that fly in the air have still other similarities dictated by the severe demands of flight.
Every life is dictated by happenstance but some are distinctly shaped by a series of chance meetings. Times, Sunday Times
He dictated a letter to his secretary.
A wise politician would be mindful of what his constituency had to say, but he should not be dictated to.
According to my guide, the level of elaborateness is dictated by the donations from villagers now working overseas. Breaking Away
One possibility was to insist on the right to work and earn a self-supporting wage whenever circumstances dictated that they enter the labor market.
A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton.
And by "trivial", I mean, like, say, how many calories I ate that day (easy, because I never give into the "baser" urges, such as the urge to overindulge in food, given my yoga-dictated practice of "brahmacharya", loosely translated from Sanskrit as "self-restraint" and often associated with the restraint of sexual urges). Lauren Cahn: Namaste...Bitches
Batteries in the early 1970s were relatively large and dictated that the watch case was clumsily large too.
Islam, Muslims believe the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, in Mecca, by an archangel in approximately 610AD and he dictated it to his companions.
Like, the kind of nutters that make us wonder whether the spirit said nutter is channeling (no really, as in: "My book is the Memoir of Gwynyfynyyynn, Princess of the Lost Underwater Kingdom of Mu, As Dictated Through the Willing Medium of My Person") is TOTALLY WASTED (OMG that's kind of an awesome book idea, is it not? Archive 2010-01-01
_The best jestbook in the world_ is that which he dictated from memory, without referring to any book, on a day on which illness had rendered him incapable of serious study. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
It is good for man that he should feel himself at some time unshackled and autocratical, that he should say, This I do, because it is prescribed to me by the conditions without which I cannot exist, or by the election which in past time I deliberately made; and this, because it is dictated by the present frame of my spirit, and is therefore that in which the powers my nature has entailed upon me may be most fully manifested. Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
During each presentation a running account of the male's response was dictated into a tape recorder.

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