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Your health status should not be dictated by Twitter or Instagram. – Daniel Driffin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Fed policy is dictated by data, and on a meeting-by-meeting basis. – David Norris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
George Gascon dictated a blanket policy on December 7, 2020, whereby strike priors for forbidden to be filed on any case, george Gascon has also ordered all prosecutors to remove strike priors on any existing cases. That meant child murderers, serial rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers, and police killers who were career criminals. – Jon Hatami	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's no magic in any previously reported schedule, this investigation is going to be dictated by the facts we unearth. – Alvin Bragg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You and I know very well that is not the acceptable culture in Washington, because if you do those things, and you go against the grain of what people view as cool, or what the narrative of the day is that is dictated by the power elite… then immediately you become an outcast, you become otherized. – Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The narrative would've been dictated and controlled, really, by members of the Chicago Police Department, their attempts to really control the narrative of what Jason Van Dyke did and how it was so different from what he actually did -- I think that backfired. – Joe McMahon	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t think we played with enough force. They dictated the start, they were attacking on both ends of the floor and we were back on our heels. You can’t do that against good teams. We gave them too much respect. – Trail Blazers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Once you enter such a crowd, you no longer have control over your environment. How you move, for instance, is no longer dictated by how you want to move, but rather, how the crowd is moving you. – Rami Hashish	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Some of the small deals are dictated by legal documents, there are clauses in there that can trip you up, and you have to be aware of at least what it means. You may not be able to sort of dissect the nuances, but you have to understand what the impact is because brands are savvy enough to stick that stuff in there. – Michael Rueda	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At the end, we are confident that Gov. Kemp, who has demonstrated that he will not be dictated to by the federal government and has committed himself to combatting violent crime, will not suspend Sheriff Victor Hill, who is well documented as one of Georgia’s most devoted anti-crime law enforcement officers. – Drew Findling	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
People are in ideological camps and sort of the information, the narratives that you absorb are dictated by the ideology that you adhere to.Traditionally publishers, but also bookstores and libraries, have been places for all comers that offer a wide variety of ideas to choose from. – Suzanne Nossel	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We feel strongly that we will go by the science which has dictated for us the optimal way to get the 94 to 95% response which is in fact durable for the period of time that we’ve been following it. – Anthony Fauci	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
When the need for more pandemic relief was obvious, did we deliver a timely lifeline America needed? Or did we say nothing was better than something until politics dictated our actions? when unrest spilled into the cities and communities across the country, did we deliver safety that Americans wanted or did we let calls to defund the police, intimidate us from protecting life, liberty and property? – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Every time one of those elders leaves this world, it's like a whole library, a whole beautiful chapter of our history, of our ceremonies -- all that knowledge, gone, it's not written, it's not dictated, you're not going to find it on the internet. – Clayson Benally	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have maintained our distanceand we have obeyed every singlerule, but I feel that thiscountry is being dictated tounnecessarily, personally, Im puttingno one in danger. – Eliot Rabin	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It will create more ill will toward Amazon and drive more third-party sellers to re-evaluate how they are managing their brands and if they want to be dictated to by Amazon. – Evan Armstrong	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
the system set. The truth is:- insurance premiums are set on mortality rates so that companies would pay out less than they take in. In america black people died earlier than whites.So discrimination set in. Racism dictated that-emancipated blacks were uninsurable. Discrimination based on statistics has now a technotyrannical basis. We have become a racially decadent society. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
The city of Baltimore should have been prepared with a recovery strategy and been able to recover within much much less time. That time would be dictated by a risk assessment guiding how long they can afford to be down, they shoud have been ready, especially after the previous attack, to recover from ransomware. – Asher DeMetz	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Pigs are not nearly as well-suited to movement over distance as cattle and transporting them, either slaughtered or on the hoof, over hundreds or even tens of kilometres, would have required a monumental effort, this suggests that prescribed contributions were required and that rules dictated that offered pigs must be raised by the feasting participants, accompanying them on their journey, rather than being acquired locally. – Richard Madgwick	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Saudi Arabia favours a gradual approach to increase output to compensate for any unplanned outages. The decision about the timing and amount of oil to raise will be decided when the ministers meet in June, the increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation. – The Gulf source	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation. – The Gulf source	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter. – Harold Bornstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
( Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell Donald Trump what Donald Trump couldn't put in there, they came to pick up their letter at 4 o'clock or something. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter, i just made it up as I went along. – Harold Bornstein	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Your health status should not be dictated by Twitter or Instagram.

– Daniel Driffin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Fed policy is dictated by data, and on a meeting-by-meeting basis.

– David Norris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

George Gascon dictated a blanket policy on December 7, 2020, whereby strike priors for forbidden to be filed on any case, george Gascon has also ordered all prosecutors to remove strike priors on any existing cases. That meant child murderers, serial rapists, child molesters, sex traffickers, and police killers who were career criminals.

– Jon Hatami

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's no magic in any previously reported schedule, this investigation is going to be dictated by the facts we unearth.

– Alvin Bragg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You and I know very well that is not the acceptable culture in Washington, because if you do those things, and you go against the grain of what people view as cool, or what the narrative of the day is that is dictated by the power elite… then immediately you become an outcast, you become otherized.

– Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The narrative would've been dictated and controlled, really, by members of the Chicago Police Department, their attempts to really control the narrative of what Jason Van Dyke did and how it was so different from what he actually did -- I think that backfired.

– Joe McMahon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t think we played with enough force. They dictated the start, they were attacking on both ends of the floor and we were back on our heels. You can’t do that against good teams. We gave them too much respect.

– Trail Blazers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once you enter such a crowd, you no longer have control over your environment. How you move, for instance, is no longer dictated by how you want to move, but rather, how the crowd is moving you.

– Rami Hashish

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Some of the small deals are dictated by legal documents, there are clauses in there that can trip you up, and you have to be aware of at least what it means. You may not be able to sort of dissect the nuances, but you have to understand what the impact is because brands are savvy enough to stick that stuff in there.

– Michael Rueda

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the end, we are confident that Gov. Kemp, who has demonstrated that he will not be dictated to by the federal government and has committed himself to combatting violent crime, will not suspend Sheriff Victor Hill, who is well documented as one of Georgia’s most devoted anti-crime law enforcement officers.

– Drew Findling

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People are in ideological camps and sort of the information, the narratives that you absorb are dictated by the ideology that you adhere to.Traditionally publishers, but also bookstores and libraries, have been places for all comers that offer a wide variety of ideas to choose from.

– Suzanne Nossel

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We feel strongly that we will go by the science which has dictated for us the optimal way to get the 94 to 95% response which is in fact durable for the period of time that we’ve been following it.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When the need for more pandemic relief was obvious, did we deliver a timely lifeline America needed? Or did we say nothing was better than something until politics dictated our actions? when unrest spilled into the cities and communities across the country, did we deliver safety that Americans wanted or did we let calls to defund the police, intimidate us from protecting life, liberty and property?

– House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Every time one of those elders leaves this world, it's like a whole library, a whole beautiful chapter of our history, of our ceremonies -- all that knowledge, gone, it's not written, it's not dictated, you're not going to find it on the internet.

– Clayson Benally

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have maintained our distanceand we have obeyed every singlerule, but I feel that thiscountry is being dictated tounnecessarily, personally, Im puttingno one in danger.

– Eliot Rabin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It will create more ill will toward Amazon and drive more third-party sellers to re-evaluate how they are managing their brands and if they want to be dictated to by Amazon.

– Evan Armstrong

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

the system set. The truth is:- insurance premiums are set on mortality rates so that companies would pay out less than they take in. In america black people died earlier than whites.So discrimination set in. Racism dictated that-emancipated blacks were uninsurable. Discrimination based on statistics has now a technotyrannical basis. We have become a racially decadent society.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

The city of Baltimore should have been prepared with a recovery strategy and been able to recover within much much less time. That time would be dictated by a risk assessment guiding how long they can afford to be down, they shoud have been ready, especially after the previous attack, to recover from ransomware.

– Asher DeMetz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Pigs are not nearly as well-suited to movement over distance as cattle and transporting them, either slaughtered or on the hoof, over hundreds or even tens of kilometres, would have required a monumental effort, this suggests that prescribed contributions were required and that rules dictated that offered pigs must be raised by the feasting participants, accompanying them on their journey, rather than being acquired locally.

– Richard Madgwick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Saudi Arabia favours a gradual approach to increase output to compensate for any unplanned outages. The decision about the timing and amount of oil to raise will be decided when the ministers meet in June, the increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation.

– The Gulf source

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The increase in output will be dictated by market conditions and all the numbers circulated about size of the increase or the timing are mere speculation.

– The Gulf source

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter.

– Harold Bornstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

( Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell Donald Trump what Donald Trump couldn't put in there, they came to pick up their letter at 4 o'clock or something.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter, i just made it up as I went along.

– Harold Bornstein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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