Sentence examples for first directives from inspiring English sources

One of Mr. Riggio's first directives when he resumed Barnesandnoble.com's day-to-day management in January, long before the idea took off with publishers, was to install a tab for electronic books on its home page.

Mr. Bloomberg's emphasis on assembling his aides near him in one room -- it was among the first directives he issued -- signals that Mr. Bloomberg intends to rely on a wider circle of advisers and a more free-wheeling management style, which will allow the deputies to have more influence on the day-to-day-management of New York.

One of my first directives to them was, "More pain".

Ms. Robinson has tried to embody the first directive while practicing the latter.

It was the first directive of this kind that Clarke had seen during his thirty years in government.

The first directive that his vice-president, Dick Cheney, gave to his chief counsel, David Addington, was to "restore the powers of the presidency".

That is the first directive in the wicked and erudite guide "The Art of Seduction," whose self-help virtues are rather oblique, as they lie in undoing the heartstrings of others.

He said the first directive from the government was impractically broad, asking all Internet "intermediaries" — a category that includes small cybercafes, Internet service providers and companies like Google and Facebook — to disable all content that was "inflammatory, hateful and inciting violence".

The first directive was issued in 1986, when Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger ordered military personnel to reject supremacist organizations.

My first directive on my first day at the job was to "never ever pick up the phone, always let it go to the service".

There is no authoritative definition of "executive orders" that distinguishes them from "presidential memorandums," "presidential proclamations," or -- as in the case of the George W. Bush first directive on military commissions -- just "orders".