He has issued directives that could ultimately change what sort of data can be used to calculate air-quality standards throughout the country and which studies can factor into public health rules.
"I know the referee has directives to adhere to," he said in his best gor-blimey accent, "but to get banned through being booked for that seems a bit harsh".
The Catholic Church also has directives on end-of-life care that may limit treatment options to suffering patients that are otherwise legally available.
American forces are still there, and the top American commander, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., said that despite the public demands by President Karzai, "he has not issued a directive to the force, and he realizes that we're working this as quickly as we can".
Specifically, baseball plans to show that as McCourt has enjoyed receiving monies from the commissioner's office, he has ignored directives from Selig and he has tried to expel the monitor Selig appointed to oversee the team's finances.
He has recently proposed a directive extending employment rights to part-time workers, and an expansion of the maximum working-hours directive that so enraged the previous British government.
He has signed three new presidential directives "to further protect our workers and our taxpayers", the first of which centres on tax simplification.
He has no family or advance directive.
He has changed an Obama-era directive to federal prosecutors to seek reasonable, as opposed to maximum, prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.
If you have children who are minors, you must have directives in place should anything happen to both parents.
Trump's speed sent federal officials into a tailspin, and many did not have directives on how to carry out the executive order.
