Sentence examples for directive from above from inspiring English sources

"I find it hard to believe this would come without a directive from above, and I think it is more foreign policy than law enforcement," he said.

But Ian Hunt, MD of Gabbitas Education says: "I think what you'll find is that the pressure comes from the individual [school] department wanting to pick the best students to do their subjects, not an overarching directive from above".

Participants were also asked what was keeping them in their posts (posting directive from above and to care for aging parents, featured most prominently), and what would attract them to remain in a so-called hardship area.

One worker tells me that despite the strike coinciding with industrial action elsewhere, there's no grand directive from above.

When alarms go off, there generally comes down a directive from above to fill the bucket of loans that is currently lacking (or out of balance) in the bank's loan portfolio.

Companies recruiting workers often frown on Japanese with a foreign high-school or college education as insufficiently adjusted to the ways of Japan, which emphasize outright acceptance of directives from above and group harmony.

That is to say that the intellectual, serving in government, must play by the rules and follow directives from above, but he or she is ultimately not a tool to be used by powerful interests, but rather the intellectual has his or her ethical stance and contributes through his or her support of good policy and or his or her resistance to unethical activities.

Vague, shadowy directives filter down from above, and no one seems to know who issued them.

And while never-ending, sometimes contradictory, directives are churned out from above, teachers mop up the emotional damage caused by the narrowing of the curriculum, ever-spiralling exam stress, excessive testing and a fiercely competitive, perfectionist culture.

An underlying issue is whether committees really are a response to a felt local need, or more a need to comply with policy directives on community participation that are enforced from above (Gilson and Erasmus 2006), often from outside the country.

Ecological planning as discussed earlier on is founded on politics of an area, thus there has to be some directives from high above on the strategies for revitalisation.