Sentence examples for directive or at least from inspiring English sources
With the support of smaller countries such as Greece and Portugal, Britain and France are likely to try to block the directive or at least to water it down.
This year, Mr. Luke helped found an organization called "Renew LMU," which has pushed the administration to enroll more Catholic students and hire more Catholic faculty members (in 1990, Pope John Paul II issued a directive that at least half the faculty members at Catholic universities should be Catholic).
The newspaper quotes an unnamed RIKEN official as saying the directive covers at least 20,000 publications.
"The lander won't be free," says Dreier, who adds that the bill's directive at least signals the support of Congress.
But administrators have a fighting chance of achieving it, or at least of avoiding directives that are so inappropriate the referees are reluctant to enforce them.
Rather than becoming afraid, we can learn to see them as directives, or at the very least, if we can be discerning about what we ascribe meaning to, we can decide what matters to us, and to what degree.
