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

Reciprocally also, the Civill Law is a part of the Dictates of Nature.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

This Instinct in Man is more general and uncircumscribed than in Brutes, as being enlarged by the Dictates of Reason and Duty.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph