Sentence examples for directive rather than from inspiring English sources

It is best to think of her "don't" as a directive rather than an indictment.

The absence of any time frame or penalties for not accomplishing that makes this aspect of the proposal merely a directive rather than enforceable.

Mr. Bolkestein tried to withdraw the directive, rather than let it go through in such a watered-down form, but his fellow commissioners voted against such a move at their weekly meeting Wednesday.

The DEA sent out guidance last summer in response to some of the pleas, but it did not resolve the central issue of whether a nurse could serve as an agent of a doctor and administer pain medication with a verbal directive rather than a written prescription from a doctor.

The reason this is the prime directive rather than one of the laws is that even though I use it as a kind of motto, it only occurred for me to include it here recently and it is too significant to be the seventeenth law. 1.

Directive rather than participative management by cluster leads.

It concluded that the plans were drafted to comply with regulations rather than to create an effective strategy to protect the population, and that they assumed people would comply with government directives rather than do what seemed to be in their own best interests.

(iv) The morally significant authority of the state's government and law is limited by the rights of the Church, though when that government and law are within their proper domain, one ought to comply with their directives rather than any purported act of administration or government (apart from general moral teaching) by Pope or bishops.

"My biggest concern is that the facilities have religious directives rather than medical standards governing care in some instances, and that patients don't know that," said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Louise Melling, co-author of a new study raising alarms about Catholic health systems.

Low Trust: Documents filled with only decisions and directives rather than explanations and data show little respect or regard for the people's need to understand the reasoning behind those decisions and little trust for people's ability to handle information appropriately.

This narrower focus of the existing trials on the elicitation of treatment preferences or creation of advance directives, rather than the broader range of activities that are part of ACP, and the fact that all the included studies were carried out in the USA, raise questions about the applicability of the available evidence in other countries and in the context of changing definitions of ACP.