It was established in 1952 by a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman in which he specified its mission as to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto.
The comments by Cardinal Arinze, a Nigerian who presides over the Vatican office on worship and the sacraments, came at a news conference in which he released Vatican directives on celebrating Mass.
Put another way, if ET is so advanced, shouldn't they have something equivalent to Star Trek's Prime Directive in which they make every effort to avoid meddling in the development of less advanced civilizations?
Following revelations that French officials had been ordered to specifically single out ethnic Roma in an continuing security campaign, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux on Monday signed a replacement directive in which the word "Roma" does not appear.
The bombardment of Rafah appeared to reflect what the IDF called the "Hannibal directive", in which it responds to any capture of a soldier with heavy fire aimed at stopping the captors leaving the scene, even if it risks injury to the Israeli prisoner.
The health care bill passed by the House in 2009 allowed Medicare to pay doctors for discussions of end-of-life care, including advance directives, in which patients can indicate whether they want to forgo or receive aggressive life-sustaining treatment.
OpenMP is a parallelization method based on compiler directives, in which a directive will tell the compiler which part of the program should be parallelized, by generating multiple threads.
Concerned about the lack of coordination in scientific research and the requirements of defense mobilization, Bush proposed the creation of a general directive agency in the federal government, which he discussed with his colleagues.
An advance euthanasia directive (AED) in which a person can state in which situations he or she would wish life to be ended.
Therefore, it is widely recommended that persons draw up advance directives (ADs) in which they discuss their treatment preferences or assign well-informed proxies in order to safeguard patient autonomy in critical situations when they are temporarily or no longer able to communicate these preferences.
