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When he was a congressman, the New York Republican invited lobbyists to dictate legislative provisions.
In its editorial Sunday headlined "The rout of the Starr judges," Le Monde of Paris called Clinton's victory in the Senate impeachment trial "the first serious setback for the crusade led by the neo-conservatives since the beginning of the 1980s to dictate the morality and sexuality of Americans."
It would be better for President Khatami to play a long-term game and not let his opponents dictate the pace at which he should implement his reform program."
Stein is shamelessly fascinated by power, and in Three Lives she begins to dictate the terms by which we read her, even today.
Another representative of Irish descent (from Syracuse), who vocally opposed the bill with the argument that the legislature shouldn't dictate high-school curricula, has received threatening phone calls that accused him of selling out his people.