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

Which, indeed, is one Argument of the Immortality of the Soul; for the rational Faculties concur with the Dictates of Nature in this Point.

From The Levellers A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons by Anonymous

At that critical Period, we hearkened to what we then took to be, the Dictates of sound policy and Prudence.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo