Obama recently directed staff at the White House to look into potential executive actions, such as expanding background checks.
Per that same Times story, Trump has directed staff to hold as many events as possible in the Oval Office, where he is obsessed with the decor.
It was alleged that the Ibis Styles hotel in Alice Springs had directed staff to place guests from remote Aboriginal communities into designated rooms.
Later, he did it at Young & Rubicam Advertising Worldwide, where he was briefly president and where he again, directed staff cuts.
After Mr. Rubin directed staff members to contact the Social Services Department, Ms. Atherton was registered in the system and directed to a shelter in Valhalla.
Emails, text messages and regulatory records show that the secretary of Pennsylvania's department of environmental protection (DEP), Patrick McDonnell, directed staff to cut short their environmental review even as numerous shortcomings remained in the project's permit application.
This footnote was appended on 7 February 2013: To clarify: Jonathan Miller directed staff and students at City Lit centre for adult learning in a production of King Lear in December 2012.
Warner Bros claims that although those without an Innovative Artists email address could not access the distribution platform, "executives directed staff to provide access credentials to numerous managers, family members, friends and others outside of the agency".
A DEP senior official who was involved in the Mariner East 2 project, John Stefanko, noted in a later legal deposition that McDonnell had directed staff "that we needed to make a decision by February 10th", although the review had been scheduled to persist for at least several additional months.
The Common Cause suit claims Kobach also directed staff to collect "whatever data there is" within the federal government that "might be helpful" to the investigation, including information kept by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security and U.S. Census Bureau.
From the start of the Interior Department review process, agency officials directed staff to figure out how much coal, oil and natural gas — as well as grass for cattle grazing and timber — had been put essentially off limits, or made harder to access, by the decision to designate the areas as national monuments.
