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How to use the word dictate in a Sentence? Page #4

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The 1970s, when a series of the largest Middle East producers could determine global oil market conditions by creating cartel structures such as OPEC, should be forgotten, at the moment a number of objective factors exclude the possibility for any cartels to dictate their will to the market. ... As for OPEC, it has practically stopped existing as a united organisation.

Igor Sechin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The 1970s, when a series of the largest Middle East producers could determine global oil market conditions by creating cartel structures such as OPEC, should be forgotten, at the moment a number of objective factors exclude the possibility for any cartels to dictate their will to the market. ... As for OPEC, it has practically stopped existing as a united organization.

Igor Sechin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is an end of an era when Naimi fought hard and struggled to create a price environment which would have been good for both consumers and producers, we are moving to a new era where OPEC will no longer be managing the market while supply and demand will determine the price. The new Saudi oil leadership believes the market will dictate the price and that means higher volatility. We will see higher highs and lower lows.

Gary Ross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are moving to a new era where OPEC will no longer be managing the market while supply and demand will determine the price. The new Saudi oil leadership believes the market will dictate the price and that means higher volatility. We will see higher highs and lower lows.

Gary Ross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can have all the commissioners in the world, but he's not going to control the economics of the sport, which dictate that the ownership has to take the horses out of competition in order to recover their investment, baseball players play for 20 years, football players play for five or 10 years, these horses run for one year.

Neal Pilson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Given the controversy surrounding Confederate imagery, I decided to install a new display, i am well aware of how many Americans negatively view the Confederate flag. And, personally, I am very sympathetic to these views.However, I also believe that it is not the business of the federal government to dictate what flag each state flies.

Candice Miller

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

To come out, and really not know how things are going to go, find your rhythm well early on, do the fundamentals well, dictate the match, I ’m very pleased with that, when I look at the overall picture of my progress, development, I have to be very pleased. I’ve incorporated a lot of new things in my game. I ’m getting more efficient coming forward at the net and I think I ’m able to put more and more pressure on my opponents.

Canadian Milos Raonic

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We welcome the decision that came this afternoon, it gives justice to the little girl, her parents, and the community. We will ask the judge for a lengthy custodial sentence. We will not dictate the length of that sentence.

Eric Ntabazalia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The government does not want students to have a say, it wants to dictate what students think, understand and say.

Rahila Parween

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

ISIL's focus on justifying killing Shiites is because it is being pressed by Shiite forces in Iraq and Syria, iSIL is hoping to enlist Sunnis by framing its jihad as part of a prophetic battle where the Shiites and Jews eventually unite behind the Antichrist. Fanning the flames of the Sunni-Shia split, which dates to shortly after the death of Mohammad, benefits ISIS by helping it recruit Sunnis, Mauro said. And the terror group's leadership appears to believe a final battle has been prophecized. Worldwide, Sunnis make up about 85 percent of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. Sunnis, who believe the true lineage of Mohammad lies with those who most closely followed his teachings, control powerful Muslim nations including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan. In addition, most Muslims in Africa are Sunnis. Shia Muslims are a relatively small minority of Shia Muslims, concentrated in Iran and Iraq. Shia Muslims believe bloodlines, not devotion, dictate the prophet’s line of successors. Throughout history, Shia Muslims have rejected the authority of Muslim leaders elected by the people, instead following a line of clerics Shia Muslims consider to have been appointed by Mohammad or Allah. The divide goes back to the period following Mohammad’s death in 632, when his close confidante Abu Bakr became the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. Shias believed the rightful heir was Mohammad’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali bin Abu Talib. Both sects have spawned more than their share of terrorists, though the terror organizations operate differently. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shebab and Boko Haram are Sunni organizations, while Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, are Shia. The 13th issue of Dabiq, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com by the Middle East Media Research Institute( MEMRI), is titled The Rafidah : From Ibn Saba' To the Dajjal. The Rafidah is derogatory term for Shia Muslims that translates to.

Ryan Mauro

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What happened with the sailors, to me, is an indication that the Revolutionary Guards are sending a message to Obama and to Rouhani that they are in charge, the deal may have been negotiated with Rouhani and Zarif, but it will be the Revolutionary Guards who will dictate the terms and dictate the implementation.

Mark Dubowitz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Common sense would dictate that any records that may be helpful for an investigation should be preserved.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Sigmund Freud

added by anonymous
8 years ago

This project is a unifying effort where churches are expressing care and support for refugees and not letting politics get in the way, churches cannot dictate who is given access to America's borders, but we can be sure to respond to the immediate needs for the millions who will never leave the region.

Gabe Lyons

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For even those folks that have been doubters about it, this has to pull them to the other side in terms of that conversation, one number in and of itself will not dictate if a hike happens or not, but a number like this is hard to shrug off.

Tom Porcelli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate, but religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You just can't' continue to have a super ultra-minority continue to try and dictate what happens in the House of Representatives.

California GOP Rep Devin Nunes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

ETFs don't want to spend the money, but saving money shouldn't dictate how people vote. It's undemocratic.

Richard Kovacevich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A story should dictate the medium, not the other way around, 'Breaking Bad' for instance, would have made a terrible movie.

Bryan Cranston

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're in a corn deficit area. Margins have been challenged, we let the market dictate how hard we run the plant. The market tells us not to run at capacity.

Eric Wilkey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We let the market dictate how hard we run the plant. The market tells us not to run at capacity.

Eric Wilkey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think it's the role of government to dictate to the private sector how to manage their businesses, especially when it's pretty clear that the private sector, like Netflix, like the example that you just gave, is doing the right thing because they know it helps them attract the right talent.

Carly Fiorina

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The jihadi landscape in Libya and Tunisia is extremely fluid, what may dictate whether an individual joins this group or that is not whether he is really an adherent to the Islamic State’s leadership or to al-Qaeda’s but the likelihood of being able to train for jihad and to carry out attacks.

Geoff Porter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At this point, there’s no smoking gun that says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a serial killer on the loose,’ we have missing people and we have a homicide. There are certainly people talking in the community and people that are upset and understandably concerned about that. When there are those concerns, we don’t rule that out. We have to keep an open mind to the possibilities, but the evidence is going to dictate where we go with the investigation.

Ross County Prosecutor Matt Schmidt

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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