Dictates

The clock dictates man's movements.

Write down what the teacher dictates in the French class.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The schedule dictates that this work be done by the weekend.

Do as your heart dictates.

The Law of Identity dictates that anything is equal to itself.

Sometimes my fingers type something other than what my brain dictates.

That's what the law dictates.

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights.

Transhumance can also be an international manifestation of lucid peasants who resist the dictates of the administration.