Sentence examples for direct officials from inspiring English sources

If courts direct officials not to perform gay marriages, they should not.

Fresh Direct officials said in a statement that they were trying to comply with the government's request and keep their employees informed about the investigation.

Another factor in insider killings is more direct, officials say: young armed men can lose control when they are brought together under pressure, and often with significant background or cultural differences.

They direct officials to consider such factors as the nature of the past crimes involved (like Ms. Gehris's hair-pulling), the time the alien has lived here, his or her U.S. military service and family ties here.

The justices could well be persuaded by lawyers for Gov. George W. Bush of Texas that the broad powers the Florida court used to order new recounts and direct officials around the state to cooperate were beyond anything the laws passed by the Legislature envisioned.

Mr. Kunstler also asked the judge to direct officials of the Metropolitan Correctional Center to house all 12 suspects in the bombing plot case in the same part of the jail, and to provide a room where they may meet to plan their defenses and pray.

In this context, these words read like a direct, official confirmation of our worst fears.

"Not a direct official, but be sure that it is someone talking on the behest of our supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei".

This decision, made in the name of the Constitution, permits a lawyer suspected of professional misconduct to thwart direct official inquiry of him without fear of disciplinary action.

Any direct official contact with China is banned, and all trade and investment with the mainland is supposed to go through other places, like Hong Kong.

And, unlike the economic talks, which can be handled through notionally "non-governmental" bodies, it would require direct official talks, with all the headaches that would entail.China, however, may be content with this impasse.