Van Hove modulates his directives to match the actor's temperament.
After Southwest Airlines was found earlier this month to have flown older Boeing 737s for months without required crack inspections, the F.A.A. ordered all airlines on March 18 to confirm that they were in compliance with "airworthiness directives," which require airlines to check for problems in their planes and make repairs.
And, as for that Russian tightrope walker who was reportedly told to put on a hard hat (the "Working at Height" directive), did anybody stop to check his breath?
"The schools that were going to be done today had to be postponed because the Department of Health put out a directive saying every PCT had to check out every batch number," said a spokeswoman for NHS Havering.
In August, the New Jersey attorney general, Anne Milgram, issued a directive to local law enforcement agencies to check the immigration status of criminal suspects after the authorities in Newark said a man charged in the killing of three young people was in the country illegally and never had his status checked in previous arrests.
At the end of October, the European Union implemented a data-protection directive that gives consumers the legal right to check on information about them and to prevent its use.
However, sometimes IGA staff received a directive along the lines of "no need to call to check in" with a local elected official, which was enough to send a message to the local elected official.
The district court found that another "purpose of the checkpoints is to check driver's licenses and vehicle registrations," and the written directives state that the police officers are to "look for signs of impairment".
But the directive to residents to boil and conserve water remained in effect, and people were urged to check on elderly neighbors or anyone who might be unaware of the situation.
"What the directive does is go to the next level of cooperation between state and local authorities to check with each other," said John Hagerty, Mr. Samson's chief spokesman.
