A central directive of the administration's strategy in Syria appears to be, "Don't make the same mistake twice".
"I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations".
Senator Kerry began his political career by saying he would like to see our troops deployed "only at the directive of the United Nations".
Plain packs are being introduced in line with the tobacco products directive of the EU, which comes into force on Friday.
The NFL ought to punish the Mr Williams and the Saints because their programme violated an explicit directive of the NFL, agreed to by the players.
A directive of the European Union stipulating that all fuel at the pump should contain 5.75percentt biofuel by 2010 encouraged many large corporations to jump into the market.
In Mesopotamia the duty of the king to ascertain the will of the gods was more strongly emphasized; a directive of the gods could result from omens, dreams, or reading the entrails of offerings.
"We were acting on the directive of the office of the president to save PAL, and we could not wait for one year," testified Franklin Ebdalin, an official in the foreign ministry who negotiated with Taiwan.
Already, under the data protection directive of the European Union, people who have contracted with a company generally have a right to withdraw their permission for it to keep their personal data.
This new strategy was developed over the spring and summer of 2001 and was approved by the president's senior national security officials on Sept. 4. It was the very first major national security policy directive of the Bush administration -- not Russia, not missile defense, not Iraq, but the elimination of Al Qaeda.
On Nov. 8, 2000, Deannie Lowe, Supervisor of Elections for Volusia County, provided to the Canvassing Board the directive of the Florida Secretary of State to conduct a mandatory recount of the presidential election pursuant to Florida Statutes, Section 102.141(4).
