“We opposed him from day one because it was clear that he was a socialist dictator and a tyrant.”

“He longed for a strong dictator and the security of the old religion, without the injustices of the old order.”

“The second was to protect democracy and freedom against a dictator in a blind search for national supremacy.”

“The secretary transcribed the doctor's dictation and prepared a detailed report for the patient's file.”

“It is also possible to create different dictation macros with associated text that can be inserted into a document.”

“The book's success was so surprising to Stowe, she claimed that she did not write the book so much as take dictation from God.”

“Such a radical reform was made possible by the fact that the country was a dictatorship.”

“By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed.”

“The dictatorship decided that a new agency with more authority might once and for all effectively integrate native groups.”

“From 1990 to 2005, Manuel Fraga, former minister and ambassador in the Franco dictature, presided over the Galician autonomous government, the Xunta de Galicia.”

“While there is much to praise on the whole about Shepherd's language, his diction is elevated to such a level at times that it can feel stilted or in conflict with the subject matter.”

“It has been my observation that most of the broadcasts are presented at machine-gun rate, with almost incomprehensible diction and enunciation.”

“His elaborate diction and exquisite articulation have since become a positive work of art.”

“The CPJ also listed the murder of Jorge Torres Palacios, who was affiliated with the publications Dictamen and Libertad Guerrero Noticias in Guerrero state.”

“Rather than a republic, Lawrence called for an absolute dictator and equivalent dictatrix to lord over the lower peoples.”

“This dictate by the King was naturally very unpopular among the merchants, and only by the threat of deportation could they be persuaded to settle in the new town.”

“Now, that one ought to do something as it would be prudent is a dictate of prudence.”

“The libertarian nudging espoused by Cass Sunstein sounds like a happier and more effective way to get things done than the paternalistic dictatorialism so pervasive on all sides of today's legislative and policy divides.”

“Nothing will crush the creative spirit more quickly than dictatorialism in art.”

“We can forgive the debts of Third World dictatorships, but these guys will run it up again and pocket the dough.”

“Admittedly, dictatorships do not encourage the cultivation of colourful eccentrics such as Montgomery or Patton.”

“Of course, history has been replete with despotisms and petty dictatorships.”

“Daunted by tackling the novel alone, he hires a stenographer to record his dictations.”

“The evocation of given spirits offers more difficulties for mediums than do spontaneous dictations.”

“In this arena, too, the use of wireless PDAs can reduce turnaround time for transcribing physician dictations by half.”

“Intervention in domestic politics often cements dictators in place by uniting the people against what they see as foreign aggression.”

“Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.”

“Intimidation of critics and the press is the hallmark of dictators and other absolutist weaklings.”

“Civilization is a mixture of dictions and contradictions and none of us to-day is sure that we know just what it means.”

“McLane's many dictions and registers, her playful digressions and pouncing aperçus, her fast footwork that takes her from sorrow to arch amusement in half a sentence, work to demonstrate that.”

“In an ironic way, Prose proves how a reader, choosing her own representation of suffering as universal, misses the point of another tradition of local dictions.”