Sentence examples for directives about what from inspiring English sources

The government is eager to know whether Sure Start "works"; and as it nervously awaits the answer, there is a temptation to issue more and more directives about what Sure Start programmes should do, despite the fact that the process of building a parent's trust and confidence, or nurturing the all-round development of a child, cannot be learned via a manual.

It faulted in part policies governing the investigations and said investigators were not always required to collect clothing used during or after an assault and did not always have clear, mandatory directives about what to do at a crime scene.

37 Stress is added by the fact that advance directives about what couples want to happen to their surplus frozen embryos prove to be an unreliable indicator of what they finally decide.

It's not because parents are more directive about what children eat, because that can be counterproductive to be so controlling.

Created by men in their early 20s (Mr. Blaemire is 23; Mr. Gardiner turned 24 last month) who began collaborating on it several years ago, "Glory Days" is the musical equivalent of a story for an introductory college fiction class, prompted by the directive "Write about what you know".

Instruction directives contain information about what decisions should be made or how (e.g. about values, goals of therapy and preferences for care in a variety of clinical scenarios), whereas proxy directives indicate the individual(s) who will make decisions on behalf of the patient should the patient lose competence.

Yesterday's directive was ambiguous about what constituted contact with an infected animal, and it confused some pet shop owners.

Because the Libertyville Highland Middle School principal, Jon Hallmark, had not received a directive from the Illinois State Board of Education ISBEE) about what to do, and because there is an opt out bill currently languishing in the state legislature, principals and superintendents are free to implement their own solutions.

Being non-directive was associated with "being careful about what you say" (PN08), "not doing anything to harm the relationship" (HV05), and "knowing when to back off" (HV07).

I now think, as I've read more of them, that in the context of what they were talking about what appear to be relatively fuzzy directives from Nixon in the cold type of the transcripts were, indeed, quite clear directives to these people.

It is satisfied only if the authority bases his directives on the reasons which apply to the subjects (the "dependence thesis") and if the subjects take his directives as pre-emptive reasons, displacing their own judgments about what is to be done on the merits (the "pre-emption thesis").