Sentences with phrase «dictated by breed»

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When I think, for example, how my own children, born in Britain and bred in the U.S., have their routine dictated by school and by violin, piano and ballet lessons, and how they move fluently from babysitting for hire to videos for rent and then to microwave popcorn and hotpockets, I realize how our society has learned to dispense with child - inspired patterns of living.

As tradition dictates, the SLS AMG Black Series is outwardly distinguished by a series of aerodynamic and bodywork changes that provide a distinctly brawnier appearance than the standard SLS AMG — in keeping with its race - bred lineage.

The sole known published reference to the «nanny dog» notion, before the rise of opposition to breed - specific laws in recent decades, came in a 1922 work of fiction, Pep: The Story of A Brave Dog, by Clarence Hawkes, a blind man who wrote by dictating his stories and, though able to spin a gripping yarn, routinely muddled his facts.