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There is no middle ground, it's none of the business of a witness to try to dictate try to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning Jerry Nadler are. – Jerry Nadler	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We will not dictate anything to the people. We want to create an atmosphere to manage a peaceful dialogue, today, we will hold a dialogue with the political entities to prepare a climate for dialogue. – Omar Zain al-Abideen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Institute will revisit collaborations with these entities as circumstances dictate. – Maria Zuber	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor. – Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.	added by Normando 5 years ago
Amazon dares to dictate to us whether our government can even talk to us about what these deals are as they are unfolding. They made the state sign a secrecy agreement. Lo and behold, when the agreement becomes known it's horrible. – Michael Gianaris	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is inconsistent with shareholder democracy to allow Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, minority shareholders with only 15 percent of Xerox's shares, to dictate the fate of Xerox. – Fujifilm Holdings Corp	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Sarah Sanders certainly didn't dictate, but he -- like I said, Sarah Sanders weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. – Sarah Sanders	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Every time we have faced adversity whether it is down in games or lose guys, everyone just steps up, we have to do the same things (going home) we did tonight, try to dictate the play, make them turn over pucks. – Lars Eller	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If we’re going to test competency, let’s make sure it’s enough of a threat to public health and public safety to warrant this type of thing, otherwise, let’s let the free market dictate who’s a good florist [or] who’s a bad florist. – Julie Emerson.	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In that sense, it becomes a space where men still dictate and still have a certain kind of authoritative role in what makes it and what doesn't, and who is and who isn't part of this larger culture. – Treva Lindsey	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Eddie was having a lot of problems at that time, after they got married, he had drank too much, he had done too much. They went from the church to the reception. It was a beautiful mansion with wonderful people, but I couldn’t find Eddie. I couldn’t find Valerie. So I went looking for them and found them in the bathroom upstairs… Valerie was soothing him. It was certainly understandable. It didn’t impact their marriage. It certainly didn’t dictate the way things might turned out.’ The marriage lasted for almost two decades until their divorce in 2007, but the band was crumbling much sooner than that. There were mountains of cocaine and ever-flowing booze involved, but Van Halen was also led by a flamboyant singer with a fearsome Jekyll and Hyde personality. David Lee Roth in London. (Courtesy of Noel Monk). – Noel Monk	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Firms should be able to take their own decisions on where they locate, subject to appropriate regulatory arrangements being in place which preserve the public interest, authorities should not dictate the location of firms. – Andrew Bailey	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Authorities should not dictate the location of firms. – Andrew Bailey	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This is our fking city, and nobody's going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong. – David Ortiz**	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam, and it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our Muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence, and to embrace a more just and hopeful future for young Muslims in their countries, our task is not to dictate to others how to live, but to build a coalition of friends and partners who share the goal of fighting terrorism and bringing safety, opportunity and stability to the Middle East. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I ’m very upset with the state of affairs right now, i always try to be optimistic. I think that freedom will prevail. And I don’t dictate who buys my clothing in a store. – Zac Posen	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I'm very upset with the state of affairs right now, i always try to be optimistic. I think that freedom will prevail. And I don't dictate who buys my clothing in a store. – International Women	Found on CNN 7 years ago
You are basically eight meters up, lined up with seven other guys and then you go, it's a bit like a 100m sprint but there are no lanes. It's a fight to get to the first corner, then after that you can move to the best line and dictate a little bit. – Liam Phillips	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Freedom means that every human life is precious and must be protected, freedom means Supreme Court Justices who don’t dictate policy, but instead follow the Constitution. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
This is about exposing Washington's declining primacy, china gains reputational power by showing the U.S. that it can't dictate Chinese actions. – Zhang Baohui	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Politicians can't dictate where things are done. – Douglas Flint	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The British referendum (on June 23) is likely to dictate the market's pace for the time being. Japanese stocks were already on a weak footing last week, so today's decline is in alignment with that. – Soichiro Monji	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
One hundred years ago, two officials by the name of Mark Sykes and Francois-George Picot tried to dictate a new order in the Middle East. It was at the apex of the era of colonialism in our era. This effort utterly failed then, and will completely fail today. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It was a sellers ’ market, two years ago. And these platforms had significant power to dictate selling terms, the pendulum, I think, will shift back to the buyer. – Jon Barlow	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

There is no middle ground, it's none of the business of a witness to try to dictate try to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning Jerry Nadler are.

– Jerry Nadler

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We will not dictate anything to the people. We want to create an atmosphere to manage a peaceful dialogue, today, we will hold a dialogue with the political entities to prepare a climate for dialogue.

– Omar Zain al-Abideen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Institute will revisit collaborations with these entities as circumstances dictate.

– Maria Zuber

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.

– Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

added by Normando
5 years ago

Amazon dares to dictate to us whether our government can even talk to us about what these deals are as they are unfolding. They made the state sign a secrecy agreement. Lo and behold, when the agreement becomes known it's horrible.

– Michael Gianaris

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is inconsistent with shareholder democracy to allow Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, minority shareholders with only 15 percent of Xerox's shares, to dictate the fate of Xerox.

– Fujifilm Holdings Corp

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Sarah Sanders certainly didn't dictate, but he -- like I said, Sarah Sanders weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do.

– Sarah Sanders

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Every time we have faced adversity whether it is down in games or lose guys, everyone just steps up, we have to do the same things (going home) we did tonight, try to dictate the play, make them turn over pucks.

– Lars Eller

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If we’re going to test competency, let’s make sure it’s enough of a threat to public health and public safety to warrant this type of thing, otherwise, let’s let the free market dictate who’s a good florist [or] who’s a bad florist.

– Julie Emerson.

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In that sense, it becomes a space where men still dictate and still have a certain kind of authoritative role in what makes it and what doesn't, and who is and who isn't part of this larger culture.

– Treva Lindsey

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Eddie was having a lot of problems at that time, after they got married, he had drank too much, he had done too much. They went from the church to the reception. It was a beautiful mansion with wonderful people, but I couldn’t find Eddie. I couldn’t find Valerie. So I went looking for them and found them in the bathroom upstairs… Valerie was soothing him. It was certainly understandable. It didn’t impact their marriage. It certainly didn’t dictate the way things might turned out.’ The marriage lasted for almost two decades until their divorce in 2007, but the band was crumbling much sooner than that. There were mountains of cocaine and ever-flowing booze involved, but Van Halen was also led by a flamboyant singer with a fearsome Jekyll and Hyde personality. David Lee Roth in London. (Courtesy of Noel Monk).

– Noel Monk

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Firms should be able to take their own decisions on where they locate, subject to appropriate regulatory arrangements being in place which preserve the public interest, authorities should not dictate the location of firms.

– Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Authorities should not dictate the location of firms.

– Andrew Bailey

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

This is our f**king city, and nobody's going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.

– David Ortiz

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam, and it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our Muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence, and to embrace a more just and hopeful future for young Muslims in their countries, our task is not to dictate to others how to live, but to build a coalition of friends and partners who share the goal of fighting terrorism and bringing safety, opportunity and stability to the Middle East.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I ’m very upset with the state of affairs right now, i always try to be optimistic. I think that freedom will prevail. And I don’t dictate who buys my clothing in a store.

– Zac Posen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I'm very upset with the state of affairs right now, i always try to be optimistic. I think that freedom will prevail. And I don't dictate who buys my clothing in a store.

– International Women

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You are basically eight meters up, lined up with seven other guys and then you go, it's a bit like a 100m sprint but there are no lanes. It's a fight to get to the first corner, then after that you can move to the best line and dictate a little bit.

– Liam Phillips

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Freedom means that every human life is precious and must be protected, freedom means Supreme Court Justices who don’t dictate policy, but instead follow the Constitution.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is about exposing Washington's declining primacy, china gains reputational power by showing the U.S. that it can't dictate Chinese actions.

– Zhang Baohui

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Politicians can't dictate where things are done.

– Douglas Flint

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The British referendum (on June 23) is likely to dictate the market's pace for the time being. Japanese stocks were already on a weak footing last week, so today's decline is in alignment with that.

– Soichiro Monji

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

One hundred years ago, two officials by the name of Mark Sykes and Francois-George Picot tried to dictate a new order in the Middle East. It was at the apex of the era of colonialism in our era. This effort utterly failed then, and will completely fail today.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was a sellers ’ market, two years ago. And these platforms had significant power to dictate selling terms, the pendulum, I think, will shift back to the buyer.

– Jon Barlow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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