Sentences with phrase «dictated by my decision»

This is a very specific audience dictated by my decision not to build a consumer product.

Your life is dictated by decisions you make.

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Decisions made by Facebook, Google, and others now dictate strategy for all news organizations, but especially those with advertising - based models.

Since distribution through social networks has become one of the primary ways people find news and information, the report says, «decisions made by Facebook, Google, and others now dictate strategy for all news organizations, but especially those with advertising - based models.

«While there is nothing wrong with having more stocks in a portfolio, that decision should be a result of your planning process, not dictated primarily by the markets,» says Dowd.

The priest has the right to decide, and that decision should be final in matters of the faith and not dictated by government.

The nature of significant freedom dictates that God's creative choices are limited by the decisions which he knows free creatures would make if created (NN 169 - 84).

The decision he reaches (to send five of the thinnest horses with two chariots) is dictated by distrust, prudence, and a concern to risk as little as possible.

Second, good natural law does not dictate a moral code to be imposed upon individuals; instead, it protects the right of individuals to make moral decisions free from dictation by either legislators or judges.

I imagine some are not for various reason — every personal decision is not dictated by a god.

In fact, if Christian witness in public life is the goal, this teaching ministry is to be preferred to the clerical leaders of the church controlling the decisions and activities of their lay members by communal dictate which is usually based on communal minority self - interests and rights and not on concern for the total neighbourhood.

In such circumstances, is it not clear that my sense of obligation continues to attach itself to the path that would be dictated by reflection, whether or not its doing so determines the final decision?

Whether they are invalidating a law protecting partially born babies, or upholding one restricting the speech of pro «life counselors, their invocation of constitutional principles merely provides rhetorical cover for decisions dictated by ideological goals.

The idea that a guy of Bud's stature, with his level of on - paper power, would stick around after such an important decision was dictated to him by the owner never made sense.

I wasn't surprised by LAUSD's decision — reality shows need drama, and LAUSD no doubt suspected it would be portrayed in an unflattering light, just as many felt the Huntington, West Virginia «lunch ladies» in season one were unfairly cast as villains for merely serving menus dictated by others.

But I'm glad it's been my decision to make and wasn't dictated to me by doctors!

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released a statement last year condemning home births, saying, «Childbirth decisions should not be dictated or influenced by what's fashionable, trendy or the latest cause celebre.»

My barriers went up and instead of allowing my body to dictate what my future held, I tried to regain some control by telling myself that a childless future was a conscious decision.

The release of a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision dictating that police need a warrant in order to search a cell phone coincides with a request by the Buffalo Police Department to purchase equipment that would transfer all data from a cell phone so it could be examined by detectives.

He should allow MP's to campaign as their consciences dictate, provided all Tory MP's agreed to abide by the electorate's decision.

When subjects decided to donate their money, Harbaugh and Mayr found, brain areas involved in processing rewards lit up more than they did when the decision to donate was not their own, but was instead dictated by the experimenters.

It's nihilistic sense of pessimism at times feels laboured and Simon's increasingly bizarre decision - making process gradually becomes dictated by the inexorable death - spiral narrative.

As Alex dictates the novel (because the Cubans burned his Powerbook), Emma plays Devil's advocate by questioning all of his writing decisions.

Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of the Hollywood glamour industry.

Just 50 years ago, such decisions were dictated largely by district superintendents and elected school boards.

When it comes to educating children, it might seem that state legislators had nothing better on their collective mind in the first half of 2016 than stopping transgendered boys and girls from switching bathrooms as dictated by their gender decisions.

Especially when crafting policy, we should not expect research to dictate outcomes but should instead ensure that decisions are informed by the facts and insights that science can provide.

No longer are many of these decisions dictated by fiat from the nation's capital.

Efforts to centralize control — with decisions about everything from teacher evaluation, school improvement strategies, and accountability increasingly dictated by Washington — would almost certainly fail and, if they succeeded, would undermine these strengths.

Gender change is a serious decision that most often is dictated by the «wish of the flesh», but not by the desire to promote oneself and surprise someone.

How you target your customers is dictated by how they pick up the information that influences their purchase decisions in the specific areas of the web they pass through.

Mortgage rates are still hovering near historic lows and decisions related to long - term loans should never be dictated by interest rate movement alone, he said.

For some investors, the decision about which online brokerage to choose won't necessarily be dictated by what promotions are being offered, however savvy and experienced investors do pay attention to, and occasionally are swayed by, the offers being advertised.

Shape The Journey in a personal way by making decisions that dictate Alex Hunter's career and affect his relationships with characters both on and off the pitch.

As significant as process is in both of their works, there is a potential assumption that the artists were dictated by the process, but what also ties these artists together is their sophistication; to be able to simultaneously make physical process decisions and make very specific aesthetic decisions.

It was a joint decision of four curators at the Stedelijk Museum to exhibit the work of ten artists from six European countries under the title «Correspondentie Europa» (Correspondence Europe), assembled under a concept dictated primarily by democratic principles.

These decisions were made by policy makers taking science into account, but they were not dictated by any of the science, nor by the scientists as a whole (obviously individual scientists have personal policy preferences like everyone else).

I think we have gone beyond fighting and insulting those clowns at Westiminster, and instead we are now able to make conscious choices and put our money where our values are, and this, ultimately will dictate the future, NOT decisions made in Westminster, but by the way we spend our money and the choices we make.

Daly attributed the drop primarily to a decision by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., whose recommendations effectively dictate the votes of a large swath of institutional shareowners.

The decisions must be made with: (1) a recognition of ambiguity and, (2) an acknowledgement that unless policies are, essentially, to be dictated by either extreme climate change or a lack of climate change over an extended period of time (so as to make any concerns about significant climate change invalid)-- affirmative policies must be made in a context where oppositional points of view are accommodated.

Additionally, it must be noted that, pursuant to the Supreme Court's decision in Just, governments are not liable for «true policy decisions» that «involve or are dictated by financial, economic, social or political factors or constraints.»

Without such joinder, due process principles might dictate that the third party is not bound by any decision the court might make with regards to the property.

We are intervening to assert that the Tribunal does have this power, and to highlight the impact of the Tribunal's decision on those living in poverty, who often have their entire income dictated by government policies of this kind.

To a great extent that decision may be dictated by whether or not lenders will adopt it.

this is the necessary result of the Court's decision, unless, in the alternative, that would be to imply that, in exercising such jurisdiction, there is only one kind of general court - martial, but there are two or more kinds of military commission, with wholly different procedures and with the result that «the commander in the field» will not be free to determine whether general court - martial or military commission shall be used as the circumstances may dictate, but must govern his choice by the kind of procedure he wishes to have employed.

They do not want those decisions to be dictated to them by a management board or a partnership or a bureaucracy.

Absent a marital agreement, the decisions about couple's assets will be dictated by state laws and precedent cases that don't necessarily serve the couple's best interests.

For once, the decision whether to legalize an issue is often dictated by morality.

``... notwithstanding the passage of some 16 years since the time of the brief solicitor - client relationship, the lack of recollection of that relationship by both D.G.C. and Sachs J. prior to the release of the Decision, and the independent concurrence of Frank J. and myself in the Decision authored by Sachs J., in my view prudence dictates that the Decision be set aside, this panel stand down from this matter, and a new panel be constituted by the Associate Chief Justice to re-hear the appeal.»

Some trusts are created with a provision that the trustee dictates exactly how much each beneficiary gets — a decision many people feel should be made by a rational, objective person.