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Constraints take control away from you: by dictating, by forcing you to think and work a certain way, by limiting your options.

Constraints help you to take control: by dictating, by forcing you to think and work a certain way, by limiting your options.

I also didn't try dictating a long document, like this column, because phones are rarely used for lengthy composing.

They must sit all day on their bed, with rules dictating even their postures, and may not look their guards in the eye.

I wrote scientific papers by dictating to a secretary, and I gave seminars through an interpreter, who repeated my words more clearly.

Microsoft used to be the big bully, pushing everyone around and dictating terms to partners.

As an empire, we began dictating the terms of world trade: If you wanted to do business with us, you had to accept our new dollar as gold.

Because his secretary was so adept at shorthand, he felt comfortable dictating to her at his own pace.

No one wanted to give the impression of a group of outsiders, all of them Americans, dictating what to do to a secretary general.

United States starts by dictating -- in the past on some of these issues --and we don't always know all the factors that are involved.

DNA methylation is a chemical modification made to DNA that plays an important role in dictating how DNA is read and interpreted by a cell.

Some of the frameworks are "heavy, " dictating the organization of your project and other conventions.

And, unpalatable as it may be, Chinese regulators have no qualms about dictating where companies should go to raise funds.

So there is no reason for eurozone politicians to take the sovereign debt crisis as a justification for dictating how agencies operate.

Benchmarks are used primarily as a guide to asset allocation weightings and performance, rather than dictating portfolio construction.

This file contains some of the entries dictating the default behavior of the query engine specifically for SAP BW.

It wasn't me it was someone else who was doing this, it was again my fantasy dictating what I was doing.

Instead of dictating relatively unrelated words, patterns were now surreptitiously inserted into the lists, sometimes whole sentences.

Some scholars argue that the justices' political preferences play a large role, essentially dictating their decisions in many cases.

"Do we really want government bureaucrats rather than doctors dictating how we prevent and treat something like breast cancer? " she asked.

Our government is dictating what the law should state. The court should deal with this.

Employers used to dictating terms to their Chinese workforce are learning to beg, plead and cajole.

When dictating text, speak without pausing between each word; a phrase is easier for the computer to interpret than just one word.

They are unreconstructed central planners who can't get used to the idea of not dictating prices.

Urbee was designed with environmentally sustainable principles dictating every step of its design.

Xavi was the man dictating the pace, the flow, the speed, the game; game after game after game.

Now Microsoft is sitting squarely on top of the netbook market and has begun dictating terms its usual manner.

But I always hated it because they were dictating the terms of the interaction.

For greater reuse, individual components should avoid dictating the application flow.

So development tools and marketing features are dictating customer experiences instead of the other way around.

Regulators are writing rules dictating how swaps are traded and imposing requirements on those who use and trade them.

I don't like how The Rockets is letting the Jazz dictating their plays. We need to match their intensity in the half.

The language dictating quotas for the numbers of female parliamentarians will be rewritten in Egypt.

The answer is smart system design and strict standards dictating who, and where trauma patients are treated.

People have adjusted to hearing individuals dictating information in public to their computing devices.

July 4How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be do and have?

She spent the morning dictating letters to her secretary.

Instincts can become even more important in dictating what your next move should be.

The scientists concluded that genetic factors dictating how people put on weight were more significant than drinking beer.

For a secretary, knowing shorthand well is very useful when the boss is dictating the commercial letters.

It definitely works best when dictating directly into Microsoft programs.

Napoleon passed the time reading, gardening and dictating his memoirs.

Without The Patriots and the cult of Big Boss dictating the events in the world, there is no need for men like David to become Snake.

Ah! What is man, to thinkhimself capable of dictating laws to beings whom he knows not?

By dictating which apps are allowed on its devices, Apple has become a gatekeeper.

He and others are proposing new rules dictating how the government awards contracts for private sector work.

Tracing in my imagination the scene that I am dictating, I see it before me, see it all the time.

The verbal pressure is higher still, for in 1949 Berlin began dictating to a machine.

The weather, the fuels and the topography are dictating our firefighting actions.

Such changes can have a broad range of impacts, from dictating a trivial scope adjustment to rendering the entire project obsolete.

In some states, new government rules dictating more efficient lighting are accelerating the switch.

Programme 7 : Tidal Seas - Tides dominate marine life, dictating precisely where and when many will breed.

The act or process of dictating material to another for transcription .

We are disappointed because we were controlling and dictating the second half.

"We are not dictating to the user what the energy infrastructure should be, " Haile said.

The buyer is dictating the price in the commercial monopoly.

I was dictating some letters to my secretary when the fire-bell rang.

Of course. Am I awake? Or is the past so alive that it is dictating my life in the present? Therefore I am asleep.

Ronaldinho was dictating the game from midfield.

There is, however, no evidence that it crossed the line by dictating terms.

Wealthy women donors, therefore, will be more likely to work in partnership with charities, rather than dictating terms.

They are not driven by some policy maker under a Stalinist system, dictating what should be done.

Second, while I am dictating the lyric of this song, I can almost write 90 percent of the content.

For secretary, knowing shorthand is very useful when the boss is dictating letters.

Adolf Hitler: I always make mistakes when I'm dictating.

I had no time in dictating the lyric of the song.

That's because feelings dictate our reality by dictating how we look at the world.

Dictating a passage about one or another character, I always begin by picturing him, or her, in my mind.

As a result, old people, through politics, are dictating the way race is engaged in this country, explained Kitawana.

I won't have him dictating to me.

How are your dictating skills?

The gangs are even dictating copy.

This afternoon I just have a long rest. So I spend some time dictating two lessons of the NCE 4 tonight.

The test drives the code you write by dictating what code you need to write.

In addition to dictating text, you can also use voice recognition to navigate applications and even to browse the web.

We wouldn't want to start dictating skirt lengths, as some law firms do.

The teacher was dictating to the class.

She was dictating a letter to her secretary.

You will never know how much enjoyment you've lost until you get to dictating your biography. - Mark Twain

what are you doing ? - i ' m dictating my weekly syndicated newspaper column .

He was dictating a letter to his secretary.

'The consumer is dictating where we go and what we are doing, ' said Mr. Ford, noting AMR's overall tech budget was similar to last year's.

The manager was dictating a letter to the secretary.

It is not merely a matter, for instance, of the Hong Kong authorities' unilaterally dictating the use of cleaner fuel.

Prevent emotions from dictating clients'investment decisions

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The risk for the authorities, however, is that over-mighty companies end up dictating policy themselves

dad , please tell me rambaldi is not dictating procedures

he was dictating a letter