Sentence examples for directives to get from inspiring English sources

"We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues," said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama's chief of staff, told the New York Times last week that the administration was reviewing a list of presidential orders and directives "to get the job done across a front of issues".

In the case of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and other post-9/11 legislation, the Bush administration did not need to resort to complex legal maneuvers or secret directives to get what it wanted; it was handed broad new authority by Congress.

The result (seen most clearly in NBCAM materials) is that breast cancer's environmental causes are avoided or downplayed to focus instead on directives to get mammograms, stay fit, and when diagnosed, obey conventional treatment regimens.

Now, we're back in control, with a timer ticking down and a directive to get the hell out of town.

"Although the last three weeks have been jarring to everyone — including the Fed — its prime directive is to get policy correct, not worry about several weeks of increased market volatility," said Jim Vogel, a debt markets strategist for FTN Financial.

Your prime directive is to get data as fast as possible, which means you are on call all the time.

He says the FDA has "historically been in the pocket of the tuna industry", and has failed to give specific directives about how to get the health benefits of fish while avoiding mercury.The news about mercury also underscores the importance of developing a federal policy to control emissions.

The European Union's capital-requirements directive is about to get tougher: it may set a crude ratio for capital to gross assets and require more capital for assets held for trading.These new rules, together with the government's own legislative reforms, are likely to increase the cost to banks of borrowing cash.

So when GQ set out to make a man out of Bieber, proposing a number of "insane ideas" that might make for a good profile, his people preemptively shot down their prime directive, which was to get the kid good and drunk.

Some hopeful pols send out e-mails directives ordering staff members to get on click-and-reload duty.