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It has grown from a rotten root—striving to replace human judgment with detailed dictates.

"When I walked out after the final game last year, I just knew that fate dictates," says Palmer.

Fly a Union flag when custom dictates it should be the Royal Standard?

As tradition dictates, the Royal Standard flies there only when the sovereign is in residence.

Rather than helplessly obeying the dictates of management, workers are obliged to do what union bosses tell them.

Fashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.

These commands could not have been obeyed as the dictates of God's laws, had the duty of Covenanting not been performed.

Will you pardon the foregoing as the enthusiasm of a youthful mind, yet not altogether unimpressed by the dictates of prudence?

This is in accordance with the dictates of caste, inherited from Spain.

Trajan dictates a treaty of peace to Decebalus, the Dacian leader.

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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dictates, such as: method, policy, practice, rite, rule, and style.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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