As to the promotion of officers who were pilots, after remarking that while an officer's ability to fly might decrease with the years, his ability to command might increase, it merely recommended that no aviator be advanced to the rank of commander until he had served one year as at least second in command on a cruising vessel.
The implementation guidelines require eligible journals to use DOIs, but merely recommend that they use ORCIDs.
The selection of the Book-of-the-Month is entirely in the hands of the judges, and they merely recommend books, subscribers can take it or leave it.
After more than a year of review, the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to issue an extremely modest set of guidelines, which merely recommend that agricultural producers use antibiotics only under veterinary supervision and only in cases of illness and emergency.
The Legal Committee of the General Assembly receives the commission's reports and debates its recommendations; it may then either convene an international conference to draw up formal conventions based on the draft or merely recommend the draft to states.
If you are a factory employee or a retail store supervisor who leads a small team of fellow workers, for instance, the new rules deny you overtime if you can merely recommend -- not carry out -- the hiring and firing of employees.
"The real question is whether or not the AG will recommend invalidation of Safe Harbor, or whether he will merely recommend setting aside the provisions which could be seen to violate Directive 95/46/EC," he adds.
Is Wills, therefore, merely recommending the extension, to blacks and the young, of the privileges of unionism?
Telephone reservations are now required, not merely recommended.
"If the doctor merely recommends or suggests, we don't cover it," he said.
But in Chris Boneau's case, Hillsdale was not merely recommended; it was prescribed.
