Sentence examples for earlier directive from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Dombeck's directive went well beyond that earlier directive.

An earlier directive, adopted in 1998, had given October 2006 as the likely date when the ban would be implemented.

Most of the harsher methods automatically authorized in the earlier directive, like segregating a prisoner for more than 30 days, would not be permitted without the general's approval.

She enforced strict counting deadlines, just as Mr. Bush wanted, and then, contradicting an earlier directive from her office, she advised counties to apply a liberal standard for counting absentee ballots, a move that helped Mr. Bush pick up hundreds of critical votes.

Backtracking on an earlier directive, Chicago State University is now telling employees that they don't need to turn in their keys ahead of expected widespread layoffs.

Similarly, Mazlina and Julia found that most (58%) of the rehabilitation physicians practise medical paternalism and override a patient's earlier directive to withdraw life-sustaining treatment [ 31].

104 As has been observed in paragraphs 84 and 85 of the present judgment, the European Union legislature is deemed, when adopting Directive 2001/29, to have kept the concepts for the protection of intellectual property that were elaborated under the earlier directives, unless it expressly provided otherwise.

Once again they face opposition from some national governments: France and Germany, in particular, are lobbying against the proposed liberalisation.Under earlier directives, France separated out ownership of its railway tracks to a new company, Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), and created another agency, DCF, to manage access to them.

"Our objective is to struggle against and crush those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road... so as to facilitate the consolidation and development of the socialist system," one early directive stated.

He still wasn't sure exactly how he wanted the Watchers to look: his early directive to the visual-effects team was "Stay away from the alien and go for a basic, six-armed, two-legged, some-type-of-head human".

Mr. Remes and other lawyers argued that they needed to be able to read and cite the documents in order to properly represent their clients, but an earlier government directive suggested that they could not do so.