| Batteries in the early 1970s were relatively large and dictated that the watch case was clumsily large too. |
| The present Cabinet is really a rainbow coalition reflecting, or rather dictated by, the political reality at the time of selection. |
| Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod. |
| The pace is dictated by the early morning quiet of a misty golf course laid out along Georgia's ocean coast. |
| By the start of the war, the Royal Navy did have submarines but the Admiralty dictated how they should be used. |
| It describes a world in which electrons, quarks and the like are point particles that move in a manner dictated by the wavefunction. |
