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Example sentences for: dictated

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("Howard's lifestyle was dictated by his obsession with his career," explains a source.)
Using this logic, in 1597, the residents of my hometown of Pittsburgh should have let their economic policies be dictated by their estimations of what would happen here now.
An expressed concern of some of the military product developers was that the weight of the LSTAT pan and the configuration of the LSTAT as dictated by the size constraints to fit in military aircraft would make the LSTAT awkward to use during patient care.
The two-stage amplification strategy (6) was adopted as a means to facilitate replication of the arrays as needs dictated (Figure 1).
Logically, therefore, the queen should do the honors, but "political practicalities" dictated otherwise.