The laws of nature dictate that you must look after your own kind.
The law also dictates that the school year must end by June 30.
The laws of chance dictate that they will be everywhere else.
The laws even dictate how quickly managed care companies are supposed to return phone calls.
The law of chance dictated that this effort would succeed in time.
If nothing else, the laws of physics dictated against it.
The law dictated that there were to be no religious ceremonies outside the church itself.
Now it's all gone wrong, as the law of averages dictates.
His character had been formed in a place where the law dictated: 'Found it?
The laws of the universe dictated that the one time he did not check, something would be missing.