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Example sentences for: dictates

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

You're claiming credit for sharing whatever humanitarian or geostrategic concern dictates military action, while opposing the use of the only military power you yourself bear responsibility for.
Though Mexican law prohibits nudity of any kind on its beaches, custom dictates a spirit of tolerance here.
The ambiguity probably arose from She/He taught her/him everything she/he knows (about something specified), in which the referent of the second She/he is ambiguous: common sense dictates that it refer to the subject of the sentence, not to the her or him, thus yielding the more reasonable She taught him everything she knows or He taught her everything she knows .
All the avant-garde artists included are actually academic, both in the sense of deriving their ideas about cultural difference from French literary critics and in the sense that they follow the dictates of others about what art should be.
Usually D'Amato dictates a campaign, and his opponent desperately plays defense.