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Example sentences for: dictate

How can you use “dictate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Some also maintain that the act is unconstitutional: the Supreme Court agreed last year to review a case claiming that the law, in effect, allows Congress to dictate judicial policy.
An essay argues that the IMF should save ailing countries from short-term disaster but not dictate long-term economic policy, as it has in Asia.
Decorum and politesse dictate that you opt for the flush.
The newspaper attacked "the hypocrisy which governs US policy on nuclear matters" and said "no country has the right to dictate to another what policies it can and cannot follow."
Today only the Cyrillic alphabet may be used, and new language edicts dictate which words are acceptable and which are taboo.