dictates

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He offered the three principles necessary for a songwriter in his first volume of collected lyrics - Content Dictates Form, Less Is More, and God Is in the Details.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2021

He views his interior life as a psychomachia, a struggle between “the Dictates of my Fancy” and reason, common sense and various premonitions or “secret Hints” from guardian spirits who inhabit an “invisible World.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Dictates from afar about how this endeavor should be organized may prove destructive to those communities.

From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2017

Therefore we see, that those, who are most neglectful of their Duty, and act most contrary to the Dictates of their Religion, are so often the most zealous in fighting for it.

From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard

The Professor Dictates Sanchia was cool and bright and merry.

From The Desert Valley by Gregory, Jackson