The contemporaneous legislation explicitly authorized advance directives seeking to avoid medical maintenance in a permanently vegetative state.
A senior administration official said that the military team, which was authorized by a directive from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, was never intended to have an open-ended or Libya-wide mission.
Authorized by a directive of President Roosevelt issued 10 July 1937, the exercise used the target ship Utah to represent a hostile fleet of two battleships, an aircraft carrier, and nine destroyers.
M. HERZOG: Is it true that they were authorized to give directives to the civilian and military authorities in the occupied territories?
Before Sept. 11, the C.I.A. had been authorized by presidential directives to carry out renditions, but under much more restrictive rules.
Most of the harsher methods automatically authorized in the earlier directive, like segregating a prisoner for more than 30 days, would not be permitted without the general's approval.
The directive apparently authorized secret CIA and FBI paramilitary squads, alongside military units like the navy's SEALs and the army's special forces, to undertake preëmptive and retaliatory sabotage and targeted killings.
Completion of an advance directive, its structure and content, and its short-term effects on working alliance and treatment satisfaction were recorded.Sixty-one.Sixty-onepercentcinanthein the facilitated session completed an advance directive or authorized a proxy decision maker, compared with only 3% of control group participants.
In the European Union, the safe use of APM was authorized in 1994 (EC Directive 1994).
Around the time Khalilzad arrived, in 1985, President Reagan signed a secret directive authorizing an increase in aid to the Afghans, but the Administration was divided over whether that should include sophisticated heat-seeking anti-aircraft Stinger missiles.
Reports from Washington have said Mr. Bush this year strengthened a presidential directive authorizing the C.I.A. to mount covert operations inside Iraq with the aim of toppling Mr. Hussein, and authorized American agents to kill him if necessary in self-defense.
