Klingenschmitt claimed, and continues to claim, that he was booted out of the Navy because of the form of his prayers, when, in reality, he deliberately got himself court-martialed by disobeying a direct order not to appear in uniform at a political rally, an activity that is strictly prohibited by military regulations.
The British had maintained a blockade off Malta since the beginning of the siege, ostensibly led by Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson, who by March 1800 was defying a direct order from his superior officer Lord Keith by remaining in Palermo with his lover Emma, Lady Hamilton.
Cardinal de Richelieu was the first to use the Bastille as a state prison, in the 17th century; the yearly average number of prisoners was 40, interned by lettre de cachet, a direct order of the king, from which there was no recourse.
Endecott's warrant was followed by an order issued by King Charles in March and received by Endecott in May 1661 containing a direct order to apprehend the two fugitives and ship them back to England.
In this case the president allowed the refusal by his secretary of defense to carry out a direct order to go by without comment — an event which could have seemed to Mr. Weinberger only a vindication of his judgment.
We are not going to ignore a direct order by a high-ranking judge in the European Union".
Before we began, we'd all been given a direct order by Walt not to read Kipling's original story so we wouldn't be influenced like Bill was.
The statistical significance of each re-sequenced segment was then assessed by a direct rank-ordering technique compared with the empirical control data.
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The judges on the panel found that the land had been awarded "by direct order" rather than through competitive bidding and at a drastically below-market prices, depriving the public coffers of millions of dollars.
