Sentence examples for directive to prevent from inspiring English sources

Clearly there had been a directive to prevent our centralised accumulation of election violation allegations from across the country.

Allowing him to speak on campus could easily occasion grave offence to Muslim students, and could thereby be argued by the extremists in the home office to be a contravention of the directive to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.

A reaction to the pants bomber, the document essentially outlined a few points including the directive to prevent passengers from using their electronics during the last hour of a flight (I mirrored it below).

That's been Ohio law for 1981, but Husted issued a directive to prevent 17-year-old voters from casting a ballot for president.

For instance, it led to drafting specific European directives to prevent major accident hazards.

"We are issuing this AD [airworthiness directive] to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the aeroplane," said the Federal Aviation Administration directive.

The EU working time directive aims to prevent workers doing dangerously long hours, but the UK allows an opt-out, seeing it as a burden on business.

But the directive, intended to prevent banks from making big bets for their own accounts, remains vague enough for Goldman and its Wall Street rivals to put plenty of money at risk.

"We are issuing this AD [airworthiness directive] to prevent loss of flight-critical information displayed to the flight crew during a critical phase of flight, such as an approach or take-off, which could result in loss of airplane control at an altitude insufficient for recovery, or controlled flight into terrain," it said.

Yet abiding by these directives fails to prevent its members from quietly and irrevocably falling apart.

The directive was meant to prevent cross-border tax evasion.