More importantly, McCurdy said, was Holder's directive, and even more important than that is the Smarter Sentencing Act.
Cortes' original directive, and even the one issued yesterday, has been seen at odds with a PA statutory provision that allowed counties to offer paper ballots in the event that just one machine had failed.
County officials admit today that they were completely unprepared for the directive, and even for the likelihood of serious machine failure, despite known problems with the touch-screen voting systems they use, or the extraordinary voter turnout long-predicted for next Tuesday.
Before he traveled by private plane from Cape Cod to Duke University Medical Center for his surgery in June 2008, Mr. Kennedy made sure to put his affairs in order — his will, his medical directives and even his legislative instructions, family members say.
In their manifesto, titled A Maastricht for Research, Berlinguer and Sartori say the time has come to "speed up" the advent of the so-called European Research Area (ERA) through E.U. directives and even a "constitutional commitment".
She'd done what we're forever chiding people for not doing: She'd drafted a very specific advance directive and had even taken the trouble to have it notarized.
"I needed to be incredibly directive and punchy forceful, even," she reflects.
Further: Ailes is cutting a diminished presence around Fox News, delivering fewer directives and perhaps even neglecting core duties.
It has also developed a risk assessment tool that should create some consistency and fairness in decisions to detain and perhaps most significantly the administration has issued a series of memos and directives on prosecutorial discretion allowing and even directing staff in the field to use discretion in enforcing immigration laws and using government resources.
"Regulatory dark matter" such as agency and presidential memoranda, guidance documents, notices, bulletins, directives, news releases, letters, and even blog posts may enact or influence policy while flouting the APA's public notice and comment requirements for legislative rules.
And even absent directives from Cunningham, Mr. Wolff said, aspects of the choreographer's style infiltrated the way he composes: "especially in the way the dance is structured, the complexity of it — that is to say, two and three and four things going on at the same time — and the surprises, where suddenly somebody walks on or walks off, and you don't know why, it just happens".
