This in turn required every heated room to adjoin a chimney, dictating compact, boxy floor plans. |
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By the 1980s, the World Bank was more or less dictating the country's export and import trade through a system of tied aid. |
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The team is dictating the tempo and enjoying success in every aspect of its offense. |
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Funds fret that lawmakers are dictating divestment without specifying which companies they should sell. |
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Ballintubber must have regrets about not clinching this game when on top and dictating matters for two thirds of the game. |
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There is no inexorable logic dictating that the media must undermine the independence of the spheres of art and culture. |
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Real economic profits nowadays play an abysmally insignificant role toward dictating economic expansion. |
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A losing side sometimes falls into a trap where they tend to counter the opposition instead of dictating the game. |
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He sat in the dictation room off of the pediatric intensive care unit dictating the final procedure note. |
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Truth, justice and the American way rely on preventing any single group dictating to the rest. |
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Although suffering very severe pain, he spent the last days of his life dictating corrections to the proof sheets of the Dissertation. |
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The sea he painted, however interesting the compositional elements, was always dictating the terms. |
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As it is, when I'm working from home, terrestrial television is often chuntering in the corner, quietly dictating the order of the day. |
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The government plays a nominal role in dictating policy because it cannot monitor local fisheries or enforce fisheries regulations. |
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Not only is Heather dictating what the booksellers should sell you, but also what they look like as they do it. |
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A few self-prophesied messiahs of the Kannada film industry are dictating terms to cinegoers. |
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His butler bosses him, and he spends all day dictating boring letters to other bankers and presiding at soporific board meetings. |
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Would you like to have a lay cardiology agency dictating how much and what kind of care you could have if you suffered a heart attack? |
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Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating. |
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The men pass the time by dictating letters that will never be sent home, acting out films they will never make, and pouring imaginary drinks that will never touch their lips. |
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They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people. |
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There should be much less confrontation, much less of the old line party politics dictating this is the way you are going to go. |
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Officials used to dictating to citizens are working out how to respond to public pressure. |
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It continually irritated cabinet colleagues, who resented Treasury officials dictating to them. |
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They accused the networks of dictating to station owners whom their stations can be sold to. |
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The special interests were virtually dictating to them to stay away from their areas. |
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In the case of the minister, it is a kind of paternalism that borders on contempt, dictating to Quebeckers what is good for them. |
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This Parliament has no place dictating to women in the developing world as to how they should address their health needs. |
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It seems that the Aquaculture Industry is dictating to our government of how the Industry should be operated! |
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They would nevertheless be unable to abuse this situation by dictating to the consumers. |
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More and more dancers are refusing to accept an association dictating to them what organizations they can belong to. |
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During the second RTFZ of the day, the sky finally played fair, with a heavy shower dictating an easy choice. |
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Many of those members from 1976 are still dictating this bleeding heart philosophy about criminals. |
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Despite the fact that the two institutions spend most of their time advising, lending to and dictating to developing countries, the rest of the world does not get a look-in. |
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They constitute a unified and powerful pressure group which has succeeded in dictating its law in the country. |
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He was dictating the pace and tempo of the fight in these rounds. |
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He also decided to send messages to the future, dictating the generational names for 60 generations of mas yet to come. |
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It's the kind of place where you'd expect to find a silver-haired patrician gliding across the floor in deck shoes dictating a letter to the Moroccan ambassador. |
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Initially, entrepreneurs sold or rented phonographs as dictating machines, but with little success. |
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No longer will this planet be controlled by financier oligarchies controlling central banking systems, and dictating to governments, what governments can and can not do. |
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This works smoothly without interrupting a conference or a train of thought or the dictating of a letter. |
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Is there reliable protection against a private monopolist dictating prices? |
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They were subjected to a totalitarian, religious, ideological government dictating over people's rights and freedoms. |
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I know it is important to ensure fairness and the democratic process and that these be observed and to avoid dictating what is best. |
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Sage Accpac CRM is built to integrate with the technologies that you choose to run your business, without dictating your technology choices. |
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We are not dictating that the company must accept any terms or conditions before resuming negotiations. |
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It's a case of function dictating similar design, but more of that later. |
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At around 10.30, after the departure of his dinner guests, he would settle down to two or three hours of work, frequently dictating beyond 2.30 am. |
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Taylor wasn't the only Scottish forward puffing and blowing towards the end of the game, and when it came to tempo there was only one team dictating it. |
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The financial sector is a much different story, with multiple levels of lending and intermediation dictating that analysis is at least as much art as science. |
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Designed to faze visiting teams, it also serves to motivate the Reds themselves, with tradition dictating that each player touch the inscription for good luck. |
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But if Mr Yeltsin does want to persuade Ukraine, and other CIS countries, that Russia has no desire to dominate them, then dictating their security policies is not the way to go about it. |
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Alexandra first saw Jesus Christ on the 28th March 2002 and began to write down the messages he started dictating to her on the 1st September of that same year. |
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I think they call that dictating to adults, it's a teaching technique. |
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After dictating a report directly to the computer, a radiologist, physician or surgeon can read it, modify it and, using an electronic signature, immediately approve and sign it. |
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In one photograph, Godard walks along dictating dialogue as his cameraman is wheeled up the Champs-Élysées hidden inside a post trolley so as not to attract crowds. |
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While Pebble's new device also includes a microphone for dictating voice replies to messages, its key feature – if it delivers on its promise – will be the week-long battery life. |
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He began regularly dictating entries into his forbidden phone, and sneaking random paragraphs into voluminous love letters, while Alex did the editing and posting. |
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Instead of adults dictating to youth what they think they need. |
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A voucher system increases the capacity of the individuals who qualify for them to access specific goods and services without dictating a specific supplier. |
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The Office of the Commissioner recognizes that TBS is not responsible for dictating to the departments the proportion of their budget that must be earmarked for the cost of translation services. |
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While dictating, why not put your feet up on a stool or chair? |
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I made my way, on hands and knees, to a bed near the dictating voice. |
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On the other hand, a higher risk score usually results in a higher security classification, dictating placement in a maximum-security institution, where appropriate programming is less likely to be available. |
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Most Somali leaders had complained that it was the Technical Committee, not themselves, that was dictating the terms and pace of the Reconciliation Conference. |
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In 1997, the Board of Directors approved an application document dictating that all benefits be based on annual earnings-a controversial decision that some considered unfair to adversely affected seasonal workers. |
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The Officers of Parliament could not accept having appointees of the Comptroller General sitting on their audit committees, having access to their investigative records, or dictating their audit priorities. |
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However where it has occurred, I believe that it is a result of the largest manufacturer dictating what the world standard would be, rather than by means of an internationally-agreed standard. |
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We have no problem with making a profit or with the market dictating prices, as long as it works and is not profiteering and gouging ad nauseam, which is what we are seeing. |
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My grandfather began by taking shorthand using a fountain pen and steno pad, then dictating from his notes to an amanuensis who typed on a manual typewriter. |
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Pink and black varnished bricks on the south and east facades are laid in a design of diamond shapes one on top of another, thus dictating the pattern of the white stone quoins. |
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If you consult an expert who seems to prefer dictating what you should do, remember that you're free to disregard his or her advice and you can always get a second opinion. |
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We found that the metabolic activity in the brain tissue is a critical factor in dictating the type of influence astrocytes induce on cerebrovascular diameter. |
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Even in his letters, dictating his letters, he would say everything twice. |
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This system also prevents the undesirable perception of an insular head office dictating to branch offices without understanding their problems, which can arise under a more hierarchical system. |
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Water defences, such as moats or natural lakes, had the benefit of dictating the enemy's approach to the castle. |
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In his later years Pratchett wrote by dictating to his assistant, Rob Wilkins, or by using speech recognition software. |
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In the end, sections of the British press contingent threw their lap-tops back into the suitcase and reverted to the time-worn method of dictating copy to their offices. |
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Let us stop messing around about the methods, claiming that, by centralizing and dictating from the top down, the federal government will achieve better results. |
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Other colors can appear in the presence of light absorbing impurities, where the impurity is dictating the color rather than the ice itself. |
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Malaysia is deeply concerned with the practice of selectivity and discrimination, as well as the trend towards unilateralism in dictating the limits of research, production and use of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. |
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At dawn the next morning I stood in the square of the little village dictating orders to my brigade major. |
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They seemed not to realize that, unopposed, this could have been the first step on a short path towards government dictating how the universities should operate. |
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And by the way they talk they're dictating to the so-called elected governments that we've got in Parliament or in Washington or in Berlin or in Paris. |
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In January 1654, during the Whitehall examination of Vavasor Powell, Trapnel fell into a trance, dictating prophecies. |
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So the first step is reading and interviewing, then dictating my notes. |
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You have to deal with the factors dictating how this match is going to shape up: The players are exhausted and the climatic conditions in Angola are extremely difficult, due to the heat and the humidity. |
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Mr Mao says a day will come when China ends the practice of dictating how many children families can have, whether one or two, and of fining and punishing transgressors. |
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The Spell Mode is very useful for dictating character sequences that don't form pronounceable words, such as part numbers, license plate numbers and codes. |
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Some historians such as David Landes and Max Weber credit the different belief systems in Asia and Europe with dictating where the revolution occurred. |
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A young English admirer, Eric Fenby, learning that Delius was trying to compose by dictating to Jelka, volunteered his services as an unpaid amanuensis. |
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The printing of this book also caused problems, due to rarely used laws in the United Kingdom against blasphemy, dictating what can and cannot be written about religion. |
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