Have you thought about what you would like?" "Do you have any special requests at the end of life?" "I'd never want to live on a ventilator like Uncle Chet, would you?" Once the discussion takes place, it's imperative that our wishes are documented in an advance directive, a legal document completed in advance to direct our healthcare if we are unable to speak on our own behalf.
The House speaker, John A. Boehner, called the department's directive "a partisan disgrace".
"No directive would be better than a bad directive," a commission official said.
It was instead something more akin to a brain directive, a psychological problem rather than a physiological one.
It is this legislation that underpins the controversial working time directive, a particular bete noire of David Cameron.
"A little more sophistication and glamour," said Kendal of the designer's directive, a departure from much of what's been seen so far this season.
The issue could take on more urgency if lawmakers in Brussels passed a directive, a form of binding European law not subject to local interpretation.
Described by a former colleague as a "master facilitator", Alan carefully empowered colleagues without being overly directive – a very delicate balancing act.
In 2012, Cameron said that the government was "committed to revising the working time directive", a set of EU-wide working standards.
"To get the airlines to react, you have to send a Security Directive" — a high-priority message that, under F.A.A. regulations, mandates an immediate response.
He triggered open-mouthed horror at one Strasbourg dinner, at which MEPs were discussing the wickedness of British opt-outs from the European Working Time Directive, a meddlesome tool for limiting overtime.
