Sentence examples for firm instructions from inspiring English sources
"I was issued with firm instructions never to refuse landing rights to an aircraft.
Our forces have clear and firm instructions — don't give in to provocation".
Which is why Eriksson left us with firm instructions to look after Rooney and why the futures of Lennon and Walcott will be scrutinised with such concern.
Shall we proceed on this basis?" Stowe has written some very firm instructions in the margin: "PM says Mrs T on no account to get into Royal Box".
In South Korea General John R. Hodge, lacking firm instructions from Washington, began as early as the autumn of 1945 to establish defense forces and police and to move toward a separate administration.
Until very recently they would have travelled there only under firm instructions from the armed forces or the government.Conversely, people from the eastern regions hardly ever made it to positions of power.
And evening callers to Prune are often greeted by an answering machine saying that the restaurant staff is too busy to pick up the phone, and a firm instruction: Do not leave reservation requests on the machine, please.
These two periods abroad equipped her for a life of writing recipes: firm instruction in classic French technique married with an appreciation of the need for a recipe to work, and to be clearly expressed.
The film shows one middle-aged man balking after hearing what he thinks is the subject howling in pain (in reality it is a recording), but many more — about 60percentt — keep increasing the pain levels under calm but firm instruction from the experimenter, "Continue, please".
A couple of months back, casting agents for a new Morrisons advert put out a call for "proper working-class people" – by which they meant people with northern accents – to appear in the campaign, but with the firm instruction: "Nobody from Liverpool, please".
A recent crop of reality shows on television - one about an old-style nanny, another re-creating schooling of the 1960s - demonstrated both the futility of shouting, and how much more successful reasoned but firm instruction always is. Besides, when is shouting something any of us need to hear?
