The Party no longer issues directives; it lays down principles upon which Government should act.
Britain has signed up to an international code of conduct for "private security service providers", laying down principles covering accountability to the law and human rights.
Rather than entering that politically sensitive debate, the bishops set down principles for guiding the country's approach to what they acknowledge is a complicated issue.
Starting in the 1950's, Mr. Rawls set down principles for the postwar welfare state, providing intellectual spine to liberals seeking tough-minded defense of their instinct to take from the rich and give to the poor.
In effect, the world had set down principles it was not yet ready to uphold; who would set the rights of a single human being above the interests of a state, or an alliance, during the cold war?
This act of issuing is called "the prescriptive command" (al-amr al-taklîfî), because it sets down principles and directives that need to be followed in order to discern the haqqs of things and act appropriately.
In 1970, the United States Supreme Court first set down principles in terms of the constitutionality of discovery rules.
The Declaration of Independence uniquely laid down principles that might over time allow the idealism of the founders to be realized.
And in some cases, they are writing down principles -- stretching them out from re-setting loans or ARMs into 30 or 40-year loans -- which drops these payments, sometimes down 50-percent.
(30-year TB patient, father of two) In addition, although day-to-day household matters were considered the wife's responsibility, husbands were expected to lay down principles to guide the women.
The premise was to do away with keywords by categorizing apps into increasingly more specific subcategories that worked on a "drill-down" principle — eliminating the guesswork and potential inaccuracy of keywords altogether.
