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"dictate to" Definitions
  1. [often passive] to give orders to somebody, often in a rude or aggressive way

142 Sentences With "dictate to"

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But this is October baseball, when hurlers dictate to hitters.
"We were letting the story dictate to us," she explained.
"I cannot dictate to the Texas Rangers their process," Johnson said.
I will dictate to you the first note you should write.
Who the f— is Margaret Josephs to dictate to Teresa Giudice?
They shouldn't be trying to dictate to us what we offer.
I would never dictate to anybody how to spend a wine budget.
He's not in a position to dictate to them what he wants.
The point isn't to dictate to physicians who gets what healthcare services.
Now, record labels and radio stations "can't dictate to the audience anymore," Rivera explained.
It is not our goal to dictate to any young person what vehicle to use.
Conservatives ask why unelected judges should dictate to a whole country what a family means.
We don't dictate to people what they ought to buy or what they must buy.
"We cannot permit the administration to dictate to Congress how we operate," he told reporters.
For example, the state does not dictate to the church anything related to its internal life.
But trying to dictate to the Chiefs' offense is dangerous because Reid has so many answers.
"It's not for the United States to dictate to Cuba how they should govern themselves," Obama concluded.
I'm not sure where the Constitution gives them the right to dictate to states their bathroom laws.
Of course, it is not for others to dictate to the Lakota how to protect their water.
In other words, the central government will dictate to the people what they can and cannot do.
"What I love about María Irene Fornés, her plays don't dictate to you what they're about," Harris told me.
California "shouldn't and can't dictate to the rest of the country" what those emissions levels should be, he added.
It is not O.K. for one sovereignty to dictate to another which countries or organizations it may associate with.
She said it was "time to free the French people" of "arrogant elites" who want to dictate to them.
Dolan, however, did dictate to Mills which news outlets could be involved in some of Mills's own news conferences.
It would be wrong to assume that the United States has North Korea cornered and can simply dictate to Kim.
Walmart is so big and powerful it could dictate to all of its suppliers what they will pay to them.
But Pruitt said that California "shouldn't and can't dictate to the rest of the country" what emissions levels might be.
Just the ability to voice dictate to Siri with specific functions within certain apps makes the assistant an actual useful assistant.
They're trying to dictate to the world how much coal is used, and I think, outside the original intent of 923.
So a dictate to F.I.S., the global skiing federation, and national teams went out: Get those women's Nordic combined programs going.
Republicans saw that as an unacceptable attempt by the House to dictate to the Senate the trial's timing and ground rules.
"This budget cannot dictate to the [tax-writing] Ways and Means Committee how tax reform should be done," the document states.
Now it's really unfair for them to dictate to us who to sue, and where to sue and to get their consent.
Already a number of administration officials have signaled they are willing to break with Trump's dictate to not cooperate in the investigation.
"Her statement is that You're not gonna dictate to me what I do with my body and my life," he told us.
The announcement set off a firestorm, as McConnell accused Pelosi of trying to dictate to the Senate how to do its job.
After Tuesday's vote, the prime minister said she would not try to dictate to her party's members how to vote on Wednesday.
Last month, Scholz told Der Spiegel magazine that Germany should not "dictate" to other European countries how they should develop their economies.
"My mother didn't yell at me, or talk over me, or dictate to me what I should or shouldn't be doing," Stryker says.
And I don't think anyone should dictate to you when your best days are, or that you are too old to express yourself.
"This is white-led, trying to dictate to the African-American community who it honors, where they're honored, how they're honored," he said.
"I don't think the president can dictate to the Senate what to do to the House," Warner said in an interview with Hill.
"No one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people what should or should not be done," he told the audience.
"I'm not trying to dictate to [Democrats]," he said, but also chastised them for blocking a vote in an amendment backed by Sen.
We can't act like we can dictate to them how they're going to be led or what's going to happen in Latin America.
Patents, after all, behave much like regulations: They are rules issued by a federal agency that dictate to businesses what they may not do.
Muslims everywhere need to reclaim their own narrative and not allow ISIL to dictate to the rest of the world what Islam stands for.
"No one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people what should or should not be done," he told the audience. 2.
Recent history offers at least one example of a vice president-turned-presidential candidate paying a political cost for refusing to dictate to regulators.
There are also questions about where power over foreign policy decisions will rest and how much Trump's White House will try to dictate to State.
That history and their "treaty rights to the land" mean the government should not dictate to indigenous people how they should develop economically, he added.
"It's supposed to be ran by people like us instead of the city trying to dictate to us how this thing should look," he said.
A leadership aide said it's not up to leadership to dictate to private or public companies which committees — or how many — they should appear before.
And after a while, if he does a somersault, you find he might want to do another one and he starts to dictate to you.
"What we do know is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something that we can dictate to them how they operate."
"I won't get worked up over the U.N. or any other organization that might try to dictate to us what to do in Jerusalem," Turgeman said.
Just prior to making the announcement, Pruitt told Bloomberg News that California "can't dictate to the rest of the country" what the emissions levels should be.
The United States is in a difficult position: Despite providing billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan, it cannot dictate to Afghan courts what to do.
What we do know is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something that we can dictate to them how they operate.
"We'll continue to process his judicial nominations, but the minority is not going to dictate to the majority when and how we will do so," he said.
By using the CRA, Congress signals that it did not dictate to the FCC to regulate privacy, and that the FTC is the proper agency of jurisdiction.
Whoever commands this vast new economy will be in a position to dictate to others the rules by which both celestial and Earthly relations will be conducted.
"It's not the business of a witness to try to dictate to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning him are," Nadler told reporters on Monday.
She took a blank index card from her desk and asked Salem to dictate to her some personal facts, another method of making her client reinhabit themself.
We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society.
We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live, or how to govern their own complex society.
The new complaint, meanwhile, could strip the company of at least some power to dictate to device makers what apps they must include with their Android-powered hardware.
"The majority relied upon the 'anti-commandeering' doctrine, holding that Congress can choose federal policies, but can't dictate to states what their own policies must be," Vladeck said.
Her allies on the platform committee regarded the Sanders effort as a rebuke to the president and merely a symbolic move because the committee cannot dictate to Congress.
"Governments never dictate to the pope what the pope should say and when he should say it," said Father Rosica, who has worked in the Vatican's media office.
"What we do know is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something that we can dictate to them — how they operate," she added.
" He didn't like the practice, he said, but "I don't think anybody should ever be able to dictate to a woman how she's gonna have to lead her life.
A dedicated group of Republican senators could essentially dictate to Trump who is fit to run the government and who isn't, whether they've been loyal to him or not.
Netflix explains its goal here is not to dictate to artists what tools have to be used – they should use whatever best makes sense for their efforts, it says.
So perhaps the GOP — and those Republican pundits who are freely offering suggestion to Democrats — needs to fix their own party first before they try and dictate to Democrats.
It's possible that could happen if the RNC tries to dictate to Trump who he should choose as his running mate or what precisely he should say at the convention.
Yet when those words assemble into semi-coherent shape, we are asked to infer that Mickey is one tough kahuna, someone with the power to dictate to corporations and governments.
The primary issue was, is and will always be whether any man has the right to dictate to a woman what she can or cannot do with her own body.
Mr. Lutsenko said he snapped at Ms. Yovanovitch that "no one is going to dictate to me" who should be investigated, prompting the ambassador to storm out of the meeting.
The offer helped defuse arguments from the right-wing, anti-EU Swiss People's Party, the largest in parliament, that foreign judges should not be allowed to dictate to the sovereign Swiss.
"We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society," Trump said Monday evening.
Macron last week played down any real prospect of renewing French efforts to push the peace process, stalled since 2014, saying it was not for him to dictate to either side.
"For them to dictate to us that this money can only be spent to arm our employees is a travesty," school board member Robin Bartleman said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
" They say that relaxation of these standards is necessary to reduce costs, because kids don't like the meals, and to block another attempt by the government "to dictate to local school systems.
A lot of people are very unhappy with what's happening in the courts, in government and general, and that we're their servants, we're their children, and they get to dictate to us.
"What we do know is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something we can dictate to them how they operate," said the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
" In a statement Thursday night, Sinclair spokesperson Ronn Torossian said the reporter meant "no disrespect" and that the organization does not "not dictate to our reporters what they can and cannot ask.
But don't ever make the mistake of believing you or our society would be better off if the government got to dictate to the press what questions are asked of people in power.
The General's dictate to display the collection by form and function rather than culture or geography renders objects dating from prehistoric through modern times more similar than different, and more extraordinary than ordinary.
"It's a constant challenge for us to reassure the community that the way we work has not changed and that the White House cannot dictate to us how to police," Captain Humphries said.
The two became fast friends, acting out adventures from "The Rover Boys" and, after Nelle's father gave the two children an old Underwood typewriter, making up their own stories to dictate to each other.
"As part of a farmer cooperative group, we find it hard to imagine that farmers will want to have someone dictate to them how to run their farms from A to Z," Rougier said.
What I freedom from is all the things that I restrict from myself all the things that I let society dictate to me for myself and that's kind of what I'm divorcing right now.
"We have no announcement at this time, but Nancy Pelosi does not dictate to the president when he will or will not have a conversation with the American people," he said on Fox News.
The mechanics: The White House will send a letter to congressional leadership asking for the money, but won't dictate to Congress what legislative vehicle it should use to move the emergency cash, the official said.
If you're particularly keen to have a legal joint in Asia, legend might dictate to try North Korea, where reports have claimed it's freely available and blooming on mountainsides as readily as grass and wheat.
Mr. Drumheller and other employees would dictate to contractors the prices the company was going to pay for renovations "without any competitive bidding or relation to the actual cost of the labor," the suit said.
Since losing the Conservatives' majority in parliament at an election she did not need to call, May has been increasingly unable to dictate to her ministers, who have begun to air their disagreements in public.
" But she added that "as awful as their process is, the formal impeachment inquiry lies in the House, and it's not the Senate's role to dictate to the House how to determine their own rules.
Notwithstanding clear Supreme Court precedent holding that this type of preemption is unconstitutional, the FCC nonetheless plowed ahead with its efforts to have the federal government dictate to a state how it governs its municipal subdivisions.
From that perspective, projects like the Very Short Introductions seem like a kind of epistemological imperialism: an effort to dictate to the entire world what among its wild array of contents is worthy of our study.
" Nadler, who has pledged to subpoena Barr if he doesn't show up, told reporters Monday: "It's not the business of a witness to try to dictate to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning him are.
"Freedom of choice" is the flip side of a far-right agenda that otherwise seems inclined to dictate to citizens, especially those from minorities, everything from whether they can wear head coverings to whom they should marry.
"I won't get worked up over the U.N. or any other organization that might try to dictate to us what to do in Jerusalem," Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman, the planning committee chairman, told the newspaper Israel Hayom.
When the invasion comes, jane will write from the cbs compound and donatella will try to file from the airport or dictate to me via our handy two-way radios (they have been lifesavers - literally - so far).
What does "two-seam fastball" mean when that pitch seems to take its ultimate direction not from its own spin but from some broader cosmic dictate to avoid the barrel of the bat, wherever that bat might be?
That the government can dictate to workers what they can or cannot write on a flyer, where and how they can march, and what they can and cannot boycott, is not just unfair — it ought to be illegal.
"Our task is not to dictate to others how to live, but to build a coalition of friends and partners who share the goal of fighting terrorism and bringing safety, opportunity and stability to the Middle East," Trump said.
He has publicly said that he would not dictate to anyone whom they should cast their vote for, and frequently uses the word "conscience": a not-too-subtle suggestion that not voting for Trump is not objectionable to him.
The founders almost certainly did not envision a roving mandate for the Supreme Court to dictate to Congress, the president or state governments what actions comported with the Constitution (unless they were a party to a case before it).
"This is a very new concept that Boris seems to have — that somehow he can dictate to them what the agenda is and that they have no standing as institutions either here or in the global space," she said.
" The letter argues that it is not the role of the government to "dictate to businesses what they should pay" and said "traditionally, men have earned more than women in the workplace because they are considered the primary breadwinners for families.
Until very recently it was common to hear from skeptics (in academia and elsewhere) that history is a "narrative," and that we must not expect the facts themselves to dictate to us what version of history we ought to adopt.
The lawsuit that Mr. Mulvaney sought to join was filed by Mr. Kupperman, a longtime associate of Mr. Bolton's, asking a court to decide whether Mr. Kupperman should obey the president's dictate to stay silent or a House subpoena to testify.
Abbas's ingratitude was on full display, after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the Taylor Force Act, when the Palestinian leader made clear that the United States will not dictate to him how the PA will spend American foreign aid.
It is a claim that draws eye rolls from most Muslims and scholars of Islam, since Muslims make up about 1 percent of the United States population and are hardly in a position to dictate to the other 99 percent.
" A spokesman for Mr. de Blasio, who has positioned himself as a national leader of the opposition to Mr. Trump, said it wasn't the mayor's place "to dictate to the president where he should and should not spend his time.
Like Cozmo, Vector has facial recognition software that lets it remember people, but now it can even deliver messages you dictate to friends and family, so long as it gets a good look at the person when they walk in the room.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday his push to rebalance U.S. foreign policy to focus more on Asia was not "a passing fad" of his presidency and, in a clear reference to China, said bigger countries should not dictate to smaller ones.
"China has reached the stage ... where they feel that they can dictate to smaller powers the relationship they will have with China, and if they wish to exercise levels of independence then China will decide how far they can go," Barr said.
"Contrary to the government's contention that CALEA is inapplicable to this dispute, Congress declared via CALEA that the government cannot dictate to providers of electronic communications services or manufacturers of telecommunications equipment any specific equipment design or software configuration," the motion reads.
"It's not the business of a witness to try to dictate to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning him are," Mr. Nadler told reporters on Monday evening, adding that Mr. Barr seemed to be "very afraid" of sustained questioning by staff.
" The dictate to stand for the playing of the anthem, she said in a statement, serves to "enable self-appointed 'guardians' of the law and vigilantes all over the country to more aggressively pursue moral policing on their own equal fellow citizens.
Jeff Bezos went so far as to dictate to his employees which states they could and could not travel to during the height of Amazon's battle with online sales taxes, leading Amazon's legal teams to create extensive maps and approval processes to enforce them.
VIENTIANE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday his push to rebalance U.S. foreign policy to focus more on Asia was not "a passing fad" of his presidency and, in a clear reference to China, said bigger countries should not dictate to smaller ones.
"I will no longer allow you to dictate to me what's wrong with my looks and what I need to change in order to be 'beautiful' (like losing one inch off my hips), in the hope it might force you to find me work," she wrote.
Those that come seeking a better life, freedom from the governments who oppress them, freedom from religious extremist who would dictate to them at the edge of a blade, are the same type of people who came here from Europe, from Asia, from all over the world.
While NASA's budget allows it to dictate to the American space industry, the goal of the A.S.A. is to attract investment and create international partnerships, guiding the industry and uniting it under one national banner to help it grow — a role she says is much harder.
"No one is in the position to dictate to the Chinese people what should and should not be done," he said in apparent reference to demands from Washington and other capitals that China undo some of its protectionist economic policies (even as Chinese negotiators have quietly offered concessions).
She claimed that "it is no place of this Court to dictate to the applicant what a family unit ought to…look like," even as her ruling firmly laid out that the ideal family unit, in the eyes of the Singaporean state, entails the marriage of a man to a woman.
While we usually rely on the typical arbiters of high-end style, like Chanel or Dior, to dictate to us what the future of our wardrobes will look like, young upstart brands like Vetements are increasingly causing a major disruption in the industry with their street savvy designs and kitschy sensibility.
"This is appalling that President Trump would be so uninformed and that his chief of staff, his counselors, the White House counsel, would allow him to spew into the thinking of Americans that he has any right or authority to dictate to what the Department of Justice does," Texas Democratic Rep.
In general, branded platforms like these dictate to their network of providers, which are the drivers, handymen and cleaners, the type of service, the prices that will be allowed, the timing and in some cases the place that services will be delivered as well as other central attributes of the service.
"In a gross misreading of the Constitution and a blatant overstep of their Constitutional authority, three Superior Court judges attempted to dictate to the legislature when it could or could not hold committee meetings and what it could or could not consider in those meetings," the lawmakers said in a joint statement.
For Health Secretary Tom Price to support a policy that allows insurance companies — and the government — to dictate to physicians how to prescribe opioids based on a guideline that has had considerable criticism within the pain community would be antithetical to long-standing beliefs of opposing government intervention in the practice of medicine.
"It is appalling to dictate to civil society groups and health care providers how they can spend their own money and force them to withhold from women critical information about and access to the full range of reproductive health care," said Nancy Northup, president of the U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights.
"Our task is not to dictate to others how to live but to build a coalition of friends and partners who share the goal of fighting terrorism and bringing safety, opportunity and stability to the war-ravaged Middle East," Trump said during a speech in the Rose Garden at an event on religious liberty.
I think the thing that interested me about my height, was just the comfort people have to comment on my body, just using a statement of fact about my appearance as an opening line: We all own women and so we're all OK to comment on and edit them and implicitly dictate to them whether they are succeeding or failing.
That Amazon itself apparently assumes it will automate as many of these jobs as possible will dictate to a large degree how it deigns to treat them (which is partly why, perhaps, it saw fit to overwork many to the point of exhaustion, some to death, and perhaps why it had to be badgered by a U.S. senator to pay them a living wage).
I guess, if people wanna say, "You know, we oughta just have the government start dictating..." By the way, one of the most stunning aspects of the last couple of days is to see conservative politicians, people like Kevin McCarthy and Ted Cruz, they are essentially saying that the government should run private companies, the government should dictate to private companies what they're doing.
Nothing could stand in starker contrast to organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which, rather than building bridges, seek to deny Jewish American students the right to proclaim their identity on their own terms and attempt to dictate to them what they are allowed to eat (apparently not falafel), what performances they are allowed to attend and what voices they are allowed to hear on campus.

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