The phrase "authoritative directions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to instructions or guidance that are considered to be official or commanding in nature.
Example: "The committee issued authoritative directions on how to proceed with the project to ensure compliance with regulations."
Alternatives: "official instructions" or "commanding guidelines".
The physician exercises a higher art than the pharmacist, but, though the physician guides the pharmacist, he cannot give authoritative directions or dismiss the pharmacist.
It can be developed in an egalitarian way (i.e., everyone has such immediate, unerring guidance) that also removes any conflict by inviting a radically subjective relativism or romantic, primitivist optimism.[4] But it is more routinely developed into esoteric and authoritative directions, requiring adepts to subject themselves to the some version of the dogmatic cultivation techniques.
Many more people were saved, with authoritative direction, with empathy, by guiding them on to the floor where the smoke would have cleared, soothing them up and on to the ledge while a colleague sent radio messages to the firefighters en route to tell them exactly where to throw their ladders.
Although there was such a dilemma over authoritative direction during the civil rights movement, all could agree upon what universal rights and privileges blacks deserved in a country that ensured it for whites.
An authoritative parenting style, which includes direction-giving and limit-setting, is positively related with an adolescent's capacity for autonomous decision-making [ 18].
An authoritative parenting style which includes direction-giving and limit-setting is positively correlated with an adolescent's developing capacity for autonomous decision-making [ 17].
I felt Harry's pain and I ended it because, in the end, the preponderance of evidence as to Harry's wishes pointed in a direction that seemed authoritative and reasonable.
NSI will continue to manage the authoritative root server in accordance with the direction of the Department of Commerce.
As I was stuck between the hedge and a fence, a number of torches started to shine through in our direction, accompanied by shouts and authoritative threats.
The report suggested parties should have more defined and authoritative leadership structures that could offer stability and direction between elections.
It was Caliph Abu Bakr, the first leader of the Muslim community after Muhammad, who ordered their compilation into a book with the final, authoritative written form completed and fixed under the direction of the third leader, Caliph Uthman, in about AD650.
