dictated's Usage Examples:

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, like the Washington sentencing guidelines discussed in Blakely, were mandatory; sentencing judges were required to impose sentences within the range dictated by the Guidelines.

is or was a nomadic artist, whose autobiographical fragments and poems, dictated to an acquaintance, were published as the book History of a Nation of One:.

Two Genro members then dictated the election of Admiral Katō Tomosaburō as the new Prime Minister.

is unclear whether ELG has made only periodical, temporary broadcast resumptions in order to meet FCC-dictated deadlines, risking automatic surrender.

ApplicationsUntil relatively recently, AUVs have been used for a limited number of tasks dictated by the technology available.

positions of these two circles of latitude (relative to the Equator) are dictated by the tilt of Earth"s axis of rotation relative to the plane of its orbit.

While the static elements appear exactly the same on each piece, the variable fields are filled in with text or images as dictated by a set of application and style rules and the information contained in the database.

Rossner wanted to be a writer, even before she could read or write, and dictated poems and stories to her warmly supportive mother.

original intention was that these men would be formed into units that would be ready to be put into action in mid-1916, but circumstances dictated the use of.

absolutely certain that come the next general election, The Guardian"s stance will not be dictated by the editor, still less any foreign proprietor (it.

The number of teams is dictated by the level of interest, practices take place during the daily sports period, and most teams play other local middle schools.

Synonyms:

determined, set, settled,

Antonyms:

deglycerolize, stormy, uninhabited, unsettled,