For two months, all patients were given tips on how to get a good night's sleep, including directives to avoid caffeine, keep a regular sleep schedule and quit smoking.
Rolling Stone reports that "McChrystal has issued some of the strictest directives to avoid civilian casualties that the U.S. military has ever encountered in a war zone.
Following directives to avoid leading the Covenant to Earth, Cortana, the AI aboard the fleeing UNSC ship Pillar of Autumn, selects random coordinates that lead the ship to a Halo installation.
Like most people, I too was taught and instinctively believed that the purpose in life, one of its main directives, was to avoid failure at all costs.
With the exception of HIV/AIDS and sexually-transmitted diseases, each of these has a vaccine and clear directives about how to avoid infection, forming the central communicative focus of such campaigns.
The flip side of the Andromeda Strain problem is Star Trek's "Prime Directive," wherein we Earthlings try to avoid contaminating another world's natural development with our alien selves (or our bacteria).
Parties may need assistance to avoid the directive communication style that can lead a child user of AAC not to develop a full range of communication skills such as initiating or taking the lead in conversation, using complex syntax, asking questions, making commands or adding new information.
For example, one health visitor explained the use of a less directive approach as a means to avoid alienation when giving advice: You can see sometimes, you know, some mothers will just switch off from what you're saying, they won't come back to the baby clinic because they, you know they don't agree with that advice that's being given.
In order to avoid being too directive, tutors must be ever alert, always on guard.
Paneth says investigators are worried that NIH will issue a request for proposals for the main study this fall to avoid the House directive, which likely won't become law until the end of the year.
