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As discussed in the previous section on risk analysis, the central security groups served primarily as advisers or consultants to the business units, and, thus, they generally did not have the ability to independently dictate information security practices.
The inevitabilities of age dictate that Generation Xers grow up, get a job, and go places--whether they want to or not.
Knowing the limits of NATO's will bolsters Milosevic's confidence and helps him dictate the terms of the game.
" 'What I mean to do, by evoking the people whose lives and work I have admired, is not to dictate the terms of virtue but to invite other people to reciprocal thoughts about what seems to them to be inescapably good or important, and how to put that into a life.
Bailey's presentation is tinged by an underlying suggestion of disapproval of those who would dictate the way the language should be used.