dictate to someone

Examples of dictating

dictating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And there is some evidence that the regional insurance funds created by the new law were now dictating policy to hospitals.
They do so by imposing rules dictating the individual steps in the interaction and the information revealed by the agents during the interaction.
However, it is difficult to follow the logic dictating the ordering of the essays in the volume.
Each culture evolves a set of imperatives dictating the correct responses of its members in any given pain situation.
In practical terms, this would clarify the reasons dictating the quest for healing and for interpretation - a quest common to many human lives.
Here we investigate the role of histone acetylation, already shown to play an important role in dictating both local and widespread chromatin configuration.
Clearly, the invertebrate and fish fauna that in turn reflect habitat characteristics are important factors in dictating the local composition of the parasite fauna.
After dictating the last word of the first sheet, the response sheets were collected, so that comparison of the two items was impossible.
This book has been written as a response to that development, and is meant to serve as a textbook, though without rigidly dictating course content.
This is not just a simple case of material interests dictating political behavior, however.
Instead of function dictating the evolution of structure, additional structure preceded enhanced function in hominid brains.
This parameter pins down the timescale of the process and hence can be interpreted as dictating the sampling frequency of our observations.
It is hard to see them as e controlling such processes, however, far less dictating their terms.
The nature of working memory is a complex issue, dictating caution in discussions of 'decline' in working memory capacity.
I am in no way dictating to others.
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