21.   International monetary authorities and development lenders ultimately lack the authority to dictate policy to borrowing nations, he said.

22.   It was also an attempt to assuage fears that club policies will be dictated by the bottom line.

23.   Its influence is too small to dictate policy but too big to ignore, he said.

24.   Its policies are increasingly dictated by ballot propositions voted on directly by the people.

25.   More pointedly, fast track has become a fast study in how local interest groups dictate national policy.

26.   Otherwise, college football policy is dictated by the commissioners of the six major conferences.

27.   Only the pope can dictate policy to individual bishops.

28.   Ridder said the company does not dictate news policy, and he said he was pleased with local management.

29.   Republicans backed the measure, while Democrats opposed it, arguing that the committee should refuse to allow the budget negotiators to dictate telecommunications policy.

30.   The downside to the acquisition for Sixt, analysts said, is that the company will not have the control it needs to dictate policy.