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  • Women of Style is a serial Huffington Post feature that celebrates women of extraordinary, individualistic style that is undictated by trends.

    Lesley M. M. Blume: Woman Of Style Faith-Ann Young: Counterculture Is Back 2008

  • Ironically, I am fairly certain that it is the in fact the angry, bitter, and disappointed part of me that wants so badly for women to hold feminism as our own — completely separate from and undictated by men.

    Getting ready to run… at Hugo Schwyzer 2004

  • Federation of Labor, that "no people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live"; recognizing in President Wilson's message to the Russians, the "principle of the undictated development of all peoples"; recognizing the resolution of the recent conference of the

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • Each one of them made the cast across longer, increased the need for loving-kindness, demanded anew, for the mere pitiful commonplace task of understanding each other -- which any mother and her child find so trivially easy -- the power of affection which each would have liked to shower on the other undictated except by the desires of their hearts.

    Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909

  • We are fighting for the liberty, self-government and the undictated development of all peoples, and every feature of the settlement that concludes this war must be conceived and executed for that purpose.

    In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 Woodrow Wilson 1890

  • Her sins of authorship were undictated by ambition or the mere love of fame; but were the joyous outpourings of an artless mind delighted in having discovered a method of conveying her thoughts to paper, and retaining in a tangible form those delightful visions that so often engrossed her fancy.

    Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers Susanna Moodie 1844

  • There was the letter, evidently undictated, with its errors of orthography, and in the child's rough scrawl; the serpent's tooth pierced to the heart, and left there its most lasting venom.

    Night and Morning, Volume 2 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • There was the letter, evidently undictated, with its errors of orthography, and in the child's rough scrawl; the serpent's tooth pierced to the heart, and left there its most lasting venom.

    Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • People at the Discovery Institute and our uneducated in the investigative sciences like Frist and others, in deference to the age of Soapy Sam and his ilk, cannot conceive of this vastness, undictated from some higher intelligence, not because they see design, but because they can’t in their minds separate God from any element.

    Beyond the fish wars - The Panda's Thumb 2005

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