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In 1897 he purchased a Remington typewriter so he could dictate his novels to a typist instead of writing them longhand.
According to Wellington's way of thinking, Tory MPs had no business trying to dictate to him what his policies should be.
Retailers operate in a fast-paced environment where customers can dictate time management.
From the darkened bar from which I dictate this missive, I can hear the starter engines revving up!
These iconographies dictate the semantics of his copper extracts and moderate to become the lexicon of his visual language.
Instead the home team began to dictate the exchanges although it still remained nil apiece come half time.
Shows allowed the natural course of events to dictate their decisions, not some focus group falderal.
Difficulty of assessment or apportionment should not dictate an unjust or inappropriate costs order.
Today's social decorum might dictate a dismissal of overtly sexist, cheap popular imagery.
However, it would be a foolish man who tried to dictate to three such lively and intelligent minds.
Simple arithmetic will dictate that clubs cannot afford to pay a ridiculously high percentage of their income on players' wages.
First of all, common sense would dictate that this is a non sequitur, because the federal and state education collusion is a monopoly itself.
In short, BT can effectively dictate its terms to those wishing to use its local loop.
What it did do, spectacularly, was showcase how the loudest and best-connected Few can dictate customs to the Many.
If you don't loudly dictate the path that you wish to take from the outset, then clients or other external factors will generate your trajectory.
The grievous error he and his atonalist cohorts made was to dictate the path of new music to the exclusion of all else.
That he had the audacity to dictate what American adults could and could not see was sickening.
But the drastic measures were attacked last night as the latest attempt to dictate to parents how they should bring up their children.
Quebec government rules dictate that candidates who reach that magic number are refunded for half of their campaign expenses.
Roy Keane, perhaps, at his most magisterial, used to command the midfield and dictate traffic.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mrs. Smedley has no right to dictate to us all, and to work Carrie in the way she does.
Trognon should dictate a holograph will which should be signed and deposited in a sealed envelope in a drawer.
Why should he not dictate his thoughts to their pen in order to guard them from the possibility of disfiguration?
And I cannot tell what turn my mind had taken to dictate so oddly to my pen.
Well, the masters gave us that also, and it put us all cock-a-hoop, and we went on to dictate to 'em more and more.
But he had an infatuate haughtiness as to the impossibility of his retreating, and as to his right to dictate your course.
I have now stated the legality of the matter, and you may act as your own subtility of perception shall dictate.
It is just after lunch and Dulany is cutting my hair while I dictate this to Mr. Loeb.
It seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed and to dictate to the unborn.
In fact the plan was adroitly denounced as an attempt to dictate to the people.
I've got such an awful lot of stuff that I want to dictate it right off the bat.
Moreover, the Governor was attempting to dictate the way in which the people should raise a money supply.
Have him give you directions, dictate you letters, discipline you if you were unpunctual?
In cookery, a species of olla podrida variously prepared, as the materials and fancy of the maker dictate.
The variations and emphases that feeling may dictate can be done in the painting stage.
Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding.
The Alexandrian author had to dictate or recopy every word he wrote.
Next time you dictate a word ending in ais, he won't be caught again.
While filming Torchwood and performing live he has also found time to dictate his memoirs to his sister Carole for a biography, Anything Goes.
The cot was placed on the floor, and he continued to dictate from it.
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