For example you don't always get to choose what persistence framework you want to use - sometimes that's dictated by corporate policy.

例如，你不能随便选择你要用的持久化框架——有时候，选用这些组件要遵从公司的政策。

youdao

As we have made clear, should it get to the point where Congress has failed to do its job, as dictated by Congress, and the sequester may take effect, OMB and DOD and the various agencies will be ready.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

When you get referred to see a hospital consultant, would you like a letter to be dictated and posted in an unsecured manner to a mail room in a hospital pushed round on a mail cart, opened by somebody processed and then a postcard sent to your house regarding the nature of the appointment and where you should turn up?

BBC

Brands can get real like this and get into the sustainability debate, or they can have sustainability dictated to them.

FORBES: The Green Frenzy and Brand Leadership