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The phrase "broad instruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to general or overarching guidelines that are not specific or detailed.
Example: "The teacher provided a broad instruction to the students about the project requirements, allowing them to explore various topics."
Alternatives: "general guidance" or "wide-ranging direction".
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Resurrecting a judicial doctrine that has not been applied since before the New Deal era, the conservatives held that the Clean Air Act's broad instruction to the E.P.A. to set air-quality standards that will "protect the public health" is an unconstitutionally vague delegation of Congress's authority, because no one knows precisely what "the public health" is.
November 30, 1907 Créteil, France October 25, 2012 San Antonio, Texas Jacques Barzun, (born November 30, 1907, Créteil, France died October 25 , 2012 San Antonio, Texas), French-born American teacher, historian, and author who influenced higher education in the United States by his insistence that undergraduates avoid early specialization and instead be given broad instruction in the humanities.
Further, after multiple learning opportunities, including broad instruction on phylogenetic trees, targeted instruction for evolutionary relationships, textbook readings, and homework, slightly more than half of groups and less than half of individuals provided correct answers coupled with correct reasoning for taxa-relatedness questions.
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A loss of mid-level leadership makes those problems much more intractable as there is no one to pass on broad instructions or corral the often disorganised fighters on the ground.
Yet regardless of their companies' share prices, those designing trading plans must strike a balance: selling a lot of shares helps to diversify their portfolios, but plans designed to sell a lot of shares often require broad instructions for trading that an insider may later regret.
While her collaborator Dohee Lee provided rhythmic sounds breathed into a microphone, (fascinating small children who happened to be passing by) Halprin worked with participants to build a "score"—a set of broad instructions for directing movement, developed in an iterative conversation among Halprin and the participants.
While previously instructions had to be coded into a computer, machine learning, a 1980's innovation, gave a system broad instructions which it could use to make snap judgments.
Broad instructions and guidance on adaptation planning have been put forth by state and federal natural resource management agencies in the United States (e.g., AFWA 2009; CEQ 2011; Peterson and others 2011).
I've heard this, it's not new, but it wasn't until I rephrased the expression that it turned into a much broader instruction: to fear being in all public space for half of one's time," Tyson adds.
Mr. Rumsfeld said intelligence analysts now believed that Mr. bin Laden gives Mr. Zarqawi "broad direction," rather than "detailed instructions," on carrying out the insurgency.
Broad initial instruction that allowed students to generate inferences on their own contributed very little to phylogenetic tree understanding, while targeted instruction on evolutionary relationships improved understanding to some extent.
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