Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, provided few directions for how to select winners, except that the prize committees should reward those who "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".
But he made it clear that the corporation responded to directions given to it by the government, its only shareholder.
The case is expected to resume again on Friday of next week for directions and is likely to culminate in a hearing before the full bench of the high court.
Some of the entries make sense: Radio 1's George Ergatoudis is authentically influential, choosing what gets played on Radio 1 and 1Xtra; Damon Albarn is a relentless forager for new musical directions.
Drivers can use Siri to plot routes and get directions via voice.
Thoronka said there were no flights to Sierra Leone immediately after the Games and his team-mates scattered in different directions, staying with family and friends until they could return home.
What directions do you think you want to take?
"Our public resources are not flowing in the directions where they are most needed, for example, to provide safe water and sanitation, quality healthcare and decent child and elderly care services.
In recent years, an ideological drift has torn at the UK from different directions.
The commissioner will be examining directions on a non-statutory basis for the time being.
Driving his car through the busy streets of Argentina's capital, he seems slightly lost, far away from the quiet night skies and open horizons of his home, asking for directions, on his way to a rehearsal for a television show he will be performing on.
