Sentence examples similar to directive from higher-ups from inspiring English sources

Instead, we're left seething at the scapegoat du jour: anonymous higher-ups, who are imposing strategically mandated directives on our boys on the ground: Pedophile warlords are our partners in fighting the Taliban.

"There were directives from higher government levels that determined what we could or could not release, or even sometimes what could be discussed in a phone conference," Dr. Traeger said.

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.

Such 'achievement disease' is sometimes so institutionalised that community health staff can be given directives from higher levels to tamper the reports.

It would seem that there has been a directive from on high to make Newark look better.

But last week a judge at the Intermediate People's Court in the city of Deyang rejected the lawsuit, saying the court was hamstrung by a government directive from on high.

A writ of mandamus is a directive from a higher to a lower court (or corporation, or individual) to take a particular course of action or refrain from taking a particular action.

He said that he does not decide when to play Ducasse, adding that the directive comes from "high above me".

Don't jump from too high up.

The news raised hopes that Royal Bank of Scotland would also avoid a directive from Brussels to break up or sell large swathes of its coveted retail branch network.

China's squandered opportunity with green buildings shows the limits of this government-directed approach in a country with little in the way of independent voices and a tendency to ignore directives from on high.