Sentence examples for directives have been from inspiring English sources

Taken as a whole, her approach has been Kafkaesque: she has tried time and again to direct the counties to stop counting -- and then, once these directives have been set aside by the courts, she has sought to reject these votes because of the counties failure in obedience to her directives to complete the counts on a timely basis.

Martin Harper, the conservation director of the RSPB, said: "These nature directives have been the cornerstone of nature conservation in Europe since coming into force.

Although waste management directives have been in place at the European level since 2008, Poland, along with some other E.U. countries, has taken its time to write the laws into national legislation.

On Thursday, she said: "The review has shown the directives have been working well to provide the vital protection nature needs, but that there are cases where problems arise and delays occur, which is not good for business, the environment or local communities".

While advance directives have been around for almost 40 years and have been federally mandated in all Medicare-certified institutions for two decades, there has been no research to show that patients with living wills actually end up dying in a way that is consistent with their wishes.

The same directives have been acquired also in the Rural Development Plans approved by some regional governments.

Every one of the directives has been broken.

To date, the literature focussing on "conservation measures" required by the directives has been scarce.

The existence of a number of barriers to undertaking advance directives has been identified in the literature.

In The Netherlands, the requirements described in the Directive have been transposed into the revision of the Medical Research in Human Subjects Act and Medical Law [ 44].

It's the first time a directive has been derailed.