The officers were more or less able to dictate terms to successive governments

It could dictate terms.

它可以开列条件。

They moan that music retailers dictate terms to them.

他们还抱怨音乐零售商对他们颐指气使，发号施令。

Those who need money for productive investments have varying abilities to dictate terms and conditions, depending on their influence in the market.

至于物色投资资金的人士，则视乎他们在市场的影响力而定，其主宰借贷条件及条款的能力亦高低有别。

The above factors dictate the limitation and finite of the market mechanism in rural land utilization system.

以上因素的存在，决定农村土地利用制度运用市场机制的有限性与局限性。

Of course, a number of factors will dictate how long an apple tree can survive

当然，影响一棵苹果树寿命的因素有很多。

As you will see, the way our brains are wired and the hormones pulsing through our bodies are the two factors that largely dictate, long before we are born, how we will think and behave.

正如你所看到的，即使在你出生前，你大脑的构造以及荷尔蒙的作用就决定了你今后思维和行为的方式。

Supply availability, delivery infrastructure, pricing levels and policy, and funding to promote gas over other fuels are all factors that dictate the speed at which the switch occurs.

供应能力、输送基础设施、定价标准和政策、以及推广天然气以取代其他燃料所需的资金，这些都是决定能源结构转换速度的因素。

Using time efficiently and adjusting plans as circumstances dictate.

有效地利用时间，调整教案作为情节指令。

They want to talk to people who can show a little initiative when circumstances dictate, which is most of the time.

他们想与那些当情况需要时在大多数情况下是这样能够表现出创造精神的人交谈。

Sometimes a new set of circumstances can dictate a temporary change in career strategy.

有时候新的环境可能会要求你在职业决策上作出临时的改变。

It maintains the vector of registered observers, adding and deleting them as circumstances dictate.

它维护了注册观察者的Vector集合，根据特定的情形添加或者删除它们。

Some activities listed above may be concurrent or deleted as required or the order of the proposed agenda varied as circumstances dictate.

上述列出的有些活动会同时进行或根据实际情况免除，也可能根据具体情况进行顺序调整。

The Organiser reserves the right to change programme information or schedule should unavoidable circumstances dictate.

如遇特殊情况，主办机构有权更改节目资料及时间表。

China has plenty of ammunition in its monetary policy arsenal namely, high required bank reserve ratios and positive real short-term interest rates to deploy as circumstances dictate.

中国的货币政策“武库”中拥有充足的“弹药”即较高的存款准备金率和正短期实际利率可根据不同的形势来动用相应的“弹药”。

Circumstances will dictate whether we get a second chance.

环境会使我们明白我们是否又要得到一次机会。

If circumstances dictate in December the president always has the freedom to adjust his decisions.

根据12月份的情况，总统总有调整自己决策的自由。

You can choose to let circumstances and events dictate the course of your life, but in doing so, you miss your one opportunity to shape the world.

当然你也可以让其它杂务或环境的因素来影响你的生活，若是如此的话，你将错失创造寰宇光辉的良机！

No matter how competitive you are, how much you dislike the other player, or how foul a situation is, there are rules that dictate gentlemanly behavior.

不管你有多有好胜心，多么不喜欢其它球手，或者形势多么恶劣，都有决定绅士行为的准则。

The government's proposals gave much less to some classes of creditors-including those who thought their debt was secured-than the usually strict rules of Chapter 11 dictate.

根据政府措施某些等级债权者得到的还不如依据通常的破产法来得多，他们中有人本来认为自己的债权是安全的。

Business Analysts can use the Web-based runtime tooling included in WebSphere Process Server to update business rules as business needs dictate without affecting other services.

在业务需求指示时，业务分析师可以使用WebSphere Process Server提供的基于Web的运行时工具更新业务规则，而不会影响其他服务。