His controversial "joke" comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the IDF had launched a directive for "ground action" against Gaza.
a political action; it was merely a directive for all officers telling them what to say in such a case.
Proponents of smart guns say President Obama's executive action on gun control, which includes a directive for the government to research and potentially buy the controversial firearms, is the breakthrough they've been waiting for.
–Give the CIO a directive for change.
Absent legislative action, the Administration issued a directive, "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" (DACA) that provides these youth temporary relief (http://www.nilc.org/dreamdeferred.html) from deportation.
Let me characterize these briefly: Nationalism in a wider sense is any complex of attitudes, claims and directives for action ascribing a fundamental political, moral and cultural value to nation and nationality and deriving obligations (for individual members of the nation, and for any involved third parties, individual or collective) from this ascribed value.
"Like if you're making a movie for women, you have to be very careful because they're not going to know the difference between fiction and a directive to take action.
"A directive to take action against lifeboats of sunken vessels and crew members drifting in the sea would, for psychological reasons, hardly be acceptable to U-boat crews, since it would be contrary to the innermost feelings of all sailors.
Goldstein et al 54 published a 'Brief Communication' in Annals that gave research findings and stated clear directives for action and also provided an on-line appendix with details about implementation.
They do not underwrite specific directives for action or dictate what we ought to do in any particular circumstance.
So, in order to formulate and ground their evaluations, claims, and directives for action, pro-nationalist thinkers have expounded theories of ethnicity, culture, nation and state.
