It commanded all cabinet officers and agency heads to execute these directives.
How a draughtsman might choose to execute such directives across a particular wall could potentially result in many different outcomes, any one of which would nevertheless reveal the initial appropriate simplicity of the instructions.
Neither a lawyer nor a doctor is necessary to execute a directive.
His choice of ambassador to the Soviet Union was the dissident Rudolf Slansky, the namesake son of a former head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party who had been executed on directives from Moscow.
The film also examines the forces driving soaring costs — among them, aggressive end-of-life treatments — and looks at several strategies proven to rein in excessive spending, like executing advance directives, rethinking screening tests and learning about the risks and benefits of elective procedures.
Ms. Toh's and Mr. Leonardelli's answer to that apparent paradox is that, where there has been a top-down decision to support female leaders, tight cultures are very good at executing that directive.
Whether health care professionals should respect a properly executed advance directive (AD) refusing life support in late-stage dementia even if the patient seems contented, is an ethically contested issue.
Ms Schiavo did not have a formal, written, executed advance directive.
Since being named to run GE Medical Systems -- generally called Gems -- in 1997, Mr. Immelt has often been the first G.E. division chief to execute Mr. Welch's directives.
If Prince did not even have a simple will, it's unlikely he bothered to execute an advanced healthcare directive — a serious oversight given that he was a devout and active Jehovah's Witness with clear beliefs about blood transfusions and other medical procedures.
"The president's action is an affront to the process of representative government by circumventing Congress and with a directive he may not have the authority to execute," said Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
