Sentence examples for directive is to from inspiring English sources

D'Antoni's rotation is tight and his directive is to run.

More than for its counterparts, the central bank's prime directive is to protect price stability.

She says: My directive is to record all those smokers who hover outside their place of work, whether on their own or in small congregations.

If Europe's new capital-adequacy directive is to be law in all EU countries by 2004, it must be drafted before that, in October this year.

Unlike the fictional superhuman cyborg Robocop from the 1987 film, whose primary directive is to fight crime with lethal force, Robocoach is part of a project that "aims to bridge the digital divide among seniors aged 50 and above".

"Although the last three weeks have been jarring to everyone — including the Fed — its prime directive is to get policy correct, not worry about several weeks of increased market volatility," said Jim Vogel, a debt markets strategist for FTN Financial.

(Panetta told a colleague that the directive was to "make love to Congress").

Another apparent rhetorical directive was to mention not just small businesses but "family businesses," as often as possible.

Our directive was to do nothing but respond to their queries and attempt to fulfill their commands until the time came for us to destroy them".

Her new supervisor is Igor Izotov, whose first staff directive was to forbid using sources tied to the criminal world, to which critics say the paper was dangerously close.

The thrust of the directive was to make it harder for European corporate bosses to ward off a hostile bid without first consulting shareholders.