Abe can only set the tone, not dictate outcomes.

I will not give these criminals the right to dictate to me.

This is not the first time that the American public has allowed fear to dictate public policy.

If I come up and I dictate to the band that I want to play like this and I want the music to go this way, and I just jump right in ...

Having a virtual monopoly on supply, Russia decided that it could dictate prices.

The military eventually became so strong that it could dictate terms to the civilian government.

Davutoglu began conventionally, declaring that Turkey s geopolitical situation would always dictate the country s foreign policy.

The DPJ threatened to change comfortable old arrangements, whereby the US could more or less tell the Japanese what to do.

At the same time, America s bargaining position in world politics should be enhanced.

Furthermore, they will receive the right to dictate their prices and conditions to retailers, since retailers will be obliged to buy their goods.

In the radicals' view, the US will at the very least seek to dictate major changes in Iranian foreign policy.

It has programs in more than 60 countries, and virtually dictates economic policies (or tries to) in these countries.

Note how the text doesn t launch out with It is manifestly self evident that..., or any similar construction, as logic might dictate.

A country in deep economic crisis, unable to pay its civil servants, workers, and military, gets to dictate the policies of the one superpower that exists, the power on whose largesse it depends.

And if you tell them, Well, they think America disrespects them and even wants to dominate them, and they hate America.

Others define hegemony as the ability to set the rules of the international system but precisely how much influence over this process a hegemon must have, relative to other powers, remains unclear.

His slogan, Make America Great Again, is aimed at those who are frustrated that the US can no longer impose its will on an increasingly confusing world.

The greater one s ability to cause physical injury to another, the more opportunities one has to dictate their terms, and a person is able to convey this to their interlocutor through anger.

Lending resumed when the authorities made it clear that Argentina would rather default than let the IMF continue to dictate policies that had contributed to disaster in the first place.

The question is whether we should allow rich corporations to use provisions hidden in so called trade agreements to dictate how we will live in the twenty first century.

In this, Obama is following the example of President George W. Bush, who let the US electoral agenda, rather than American not to mention Iraqi national interests, dictate Iraq policy.

You and I may depend on each other, but if I depend on you less than you do on me, my bargaining power is increased.

Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment. Moreover, trade unions continue to weaken, while globalization has led to cheap production of labor intensive goods in China and other emerging markets, depressing the wages and job prospects of unskilled workers in advanced economies.

Everybody involved in this discussion should spend more time building and acknowledging good arguments, and less time telling others what they cannot say.

Thus, firms have little pricing power, owing to excess capacity, while workers bargaining power is low, owing to high unemployment.

That means that tomorrow it could bid for contracts to build missile bases on the coast of the People s Republic of China. The following day it could allow its decisions on Chechnya to be dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin s advisers.