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It was our goal coming in to hold him to under 12 points. I think our defense really dictated the flow of the game and it really led to our production on offense, especially in the first half.

It was a much different second half. What happened early, I guess you can blame that on bad coaching. But we dictated tempo and pressured the ball to get us back in it.

I told the kids they played their hearts out and they deserved to win. But circumstances beyond their control dictated the outcome of the game. We did a great job, a great job. We couldn't ask more of our players.

That's a change from the previous test, which was a needs based test, or support based test and now it's dictated as a relationship-based test, as well as needs-based. That's a significant change and might hurt a lot of lower income families as a result.

Everyone on this team has to take a look in the mirror and be accountable for what they do. They dictated the whole game - probably 45 minutes. Down the stretch, we made some plays. It's a win in our column, we had lost three in a row. We'll take it.

It'll be situational and some of it will be dictated by what we need at other positions. We'll continue to work with both of them.

It seemed like we dictated pretty much the whole game and it looked like we kind of got lulled into a slower pace.

It was a big enough deal where I felt like I had to say something. The lowest guy in points in this series, if he doesn't like something, he should feel like he's responsible to go in there and tell them about it, too. Your feelings aren't ranked by points standings and your common sense shouldn't be dictated by that.

They were aggressive and we played out of character on defense. They're 18-0 run really dictated the game.

They went to a diamond-and-one defense to stop Amanda, but it opened up our inside game and she was able to drive or set up our interior people. We dictated the pace of this game. They are a running team and good 3-point shooting team, and neither thing happened for them tonight.

They were physical and they really dictated everything tonight offensively and defensively, and it shows in the final score.

They weren't in sync and made a lot of unforced errors. But they found a way to get it done. In the second match I felt they dictated and they hit the ball crisp and that was fun to see.

They (Lemon Bay) dictated the game to us. We like to run, but they slowed the game down. We slowed down too.

Once again, it appears to me that the White House has dictated that the Republican-controlled Congress not conduct oversight of an important national security matter, ... They have made it clear that anyone who suggests that oversight is needed should be labeled as unpatriotic.

Smoky Valley dictated the style of the game. We missed open looks and maybe the pressure got to us a little.

At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by Constance, but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

At times, our defense was tremendous. We gave them eight easy points in the first half. I told the players at halftime, 'championship teams don't do that.' We played better defense in the second half. It dictated the outcome.

The last three minutes of the first half pretty much dictated how this game was going to end up. If not for those last few minutes in the first half, we don't win this game.

The irony of the game is that they controlled the tempo with a slower pace, and that dictated how the game was played. It's unfortunate that we were unprepared to play both mentally and physically.

Their whole style of play dictated the second half.

I played really well in the first set and dictated play from the start,

If you were to see the state of the bodies, and the death of those people, you would know it was a miracle dictated by god that this child has come out alive,

I am an attack-minded coach and like to take people on but circumstances dictated my plans because we had a few players injured. Within the budget we are trying to bring players in but we have to get on with it. That's life. The only worry I have is we will lose players through injury.

He thrives off that kind of challenge. Ray Lewis is too intelligent to let his self-worth be dictated by someone else. Yeah, there's always somebody who thinks you can do it better. And he's 30. But he has a number of dominant years left.

The kids are starting to accept their roles. They came out defensive-minded first. Their defense dictated the rest of the ball game. They played as a whole and as one group. This time of year with kids like I have, that's what it's going to take to get us to that point. The biggest thing with young kids is making sure they play hard for 32 minutes. That's the key.

All I want is for people to listen to it with unbiased ears, and decide for themselves. I just don't want them to be dictated to by the media, or have preconceptions about it. If you like it, great. If you don't, fair enough.

The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level.

And because it's such a small town, your behavior is to some extent dictated by the fact that everybody in town knows you and you know everybody else.

The Jet Stream, which typically brings cold air down from Canada into the U.S. in the winter months, has for the last six weeks stayed much more northerly than usual. As a result, our weather has been dictated by a warmer air mass coming across the U.S. from the Pacific Ocean.