Sentence examples for directive has not from inspiring English sources

Simon Hughes MP, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, said last night: "Signing up to the EU directive has not been ruled out; it is under consideration by the Government".

The implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive has not been straightforward in Spain because, while some actions have proved their usefulness, others seem to have been counterproductive.

"Given the alarmingly high number of arrests that continue to be made by the NYPD, it appears that this directive has not been fully embraced by the officers now under your command".

Change in proxy accuracy resulting from completing the directive has not been reported.

The directive has not yet been implemented in my own country, the Netherlands.

One of the probable explanations behind such unexpected results is that decentralization as a policy directive has not yet percolated down to the district and sub-district levels.

Officials say the list of intelligence priorities spelled out in PDD 35, the Clinton-era directive, had not been kept updated, and so once obscure issues like Afghanistan had received little attention.

Traffic noise data collection is well defined in the European Noise Directive (2002), but the comparability of the data available from the first phase of this directive had not yet reached these standards at the time of collecting the present data.

I wish the Commission had supplied us with this information earlier on in these proceedings, for then, I believe, the fact that this directive had not even been transposed in ten Member States might well have caused our debate on this subject to take a slightly different course.

121 However, the legal status of advance directives has not been the subject of significant calls for reform so the Panel has determined the legal status of advance directives to be relatively clear and uncontroversial.

Furthermore, according to a survey conducted among geriatricians [ 42], access to written ADs greatly facilitated their discussions about end-of-life care with patients and relatives, even though these directives had not come into effect.