#dictate

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. ↗

— Venerable Bede

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The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

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So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

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They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms. ↗

— Larry Harvey

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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ↗

— Frank Leahy

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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before. ↗

— Thomas Jane

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Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

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