| Batteries in the early 1970s were relatively large and dictated that the watch case was clumsily large too. |
| By the start of the war, the Royal Navy did have submarines but the Admiralty dictated how they should be used. |
| The present Cabinet is really a rainbow coalition reflecting, or rather dictated by, the political reality at the time of selection. |
| She took on Richard of York in the battle for the succession to the throne and often dictated Lancastrian war strategy. |
| I can even get it to read my e-mail aloud to me, or documents that I have dictated, while I check them. |
| Piano was his principal instrument but he graduated to electronic keyboards and organ as fashions dictated. |
