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Discover LudwigThe phrase "explicit directives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to clear and specific instructions or orders that are meant to be followed.
Example: "The manager provided explicit directives on how to complete the project to ensure everyone was on the same page."
Alternatives: "clear instructions" or "specific orders".
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Previously, doctors didn't have any explicit directives on flu shots for toddlers from the organization, said Dr. Gerald Germano, a pediatrician at Children's Medical Associates in Ansonia.
The suit contends that Mercedes gave "explicit directives" to the dealers to refrain from competing with each other on prices and that it made "threats to punish dealers who did not comply".
He has crafted a vibrant, funny, highly stylized theater piece, never ignoring the author's explicit directives while using them as jumping-off points in the search for creative dramatic solutions.
Armed with a series of explicit directives, which Emerson had played a major role in preparing, Constance as the new Dean was able to carry out a series of sweeping academic reforms in his seven-year tenure.
Further reforms would be needed to strengthen the current legislation in terms of harmonizing all land laws, as well as outlining explicit directives for land negotiations, compensation (including defining the rightful recipients of compensation) and the effective evaluation of large-scale land acquisitions.
On the greens, where he at first had been bothered by the caddie's explicit directives, so that he forgot to stroke the ball firmly, he had come to depend upon Sandy's advice, and would expertly tilt his ear close to the caddie's mouth and try to envision the curve of the ball into the center of the hole from "an inch an' a fingernail tae th' laift".
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On March 30th, two days after he became the head of O.R.R., Lloyd sent an e-mail to his staff with an explicit directive.
The NFL ought to punish the Mr Williams and the Saints because their programme violated an explicit directive of the NFL, agreed to by the players.
Government officials say that anonymous surveys have actually shown a decrease in the "slippery-slope areas," the number of cases where a doctor helps a patient die without an explicit directive.
But the order of the Supreme Court contains this very explicit directive: "It is further ordered that the petitioner George W. Bush recover from Palm Beach County Canvassing Board et al., three hundred dollars ($300.00) for costs herein expended".
At a February 1966 conference with President Lyndon Johnson in Honolulu, Westmoreland had been given an explicit directive to achieve this goal, to demonstrate that he could make good on his chosen strategy of attrition.
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