Sentence examples for direct orders of from inspiring English sources

He acted on the direct orders of Harold Macmillan, Winston Churchill's minister in the Mediterranean.

They all claimed to be acting on the direct orders of officers loyal to Adolphe.

The decision to delay the publication of the Muslim Brotherhood review, taken on Monday morning on the direct orders of Cameron, caused some surprise in Whitehall and Westminster.

I gave the yoga a miss for another month, defying, once again, the direct orders of my persecutors on the Guardian travel desk.

But a major point of the book is that Bentley took her story public against the direct orders of the F.B.I.

Manṣūr made many studies of natural life under the direct orders of his patron, who was passionately fond of recording the rare specimens that were brought before him.

Some prisoners were held on the direct order of the king, from which there was no appeal.

The paintings were bought by a special Nazi emissary in 1942 on the direct order of Hitler for his planned Führer Museum in Linz, Austria.

One bore the name Arvid Harnack, the other of Mr. Harnack's wife, Mildred Fish-Harnack — the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Adolf Hitler.

"Today's decision is bizarre for many reasons," Mr. Pugno said, "but mostly because it defies a direct order of the U.S. Supreme Court".

He is said to have killed scores of people including a near fatal attack on a journalist, and was finally killed by police sharp shooters in broad daylight, on the direct order of the president of France.