Sentence examples for gave a directive from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, it gave a directive for the teacher to stand by the door with whatever item he/she considered a weapon and be ready to attack.

~2005 2007 : " The [high level official] gave a directive that it should stop.

In January 1997, at the beginning of his second term, the President gave a directive to include delivery service in the existing maternal (antenatal and postnatal) user fee exemption policy [ 48].

"I don't think he's capable of giving a directive like that.

"I was never given a directive to cut corners or to deliver something not safely," Mr. Lacy said, "but there was tremendous pressure on costs".

The Supreme Court has given a directive to the governments in 2001 to implement these reforms, but not even one state government or central government has implemented these reforms.

"I was never given a directive to cut corners or deliver something not safely but there was tremendous pressure on costs," he said.

Now the pattern is for the ayatollah to give a directive, usually in a public speech, and then leave it to conservatives in the judiciary to arrest the offending reformer.

In this sea of wobbling black flesh, a new report on sexism and racism in music published last week by three leading women's groups gives a directive: "Picture … Jay Z, stripped down to a T-back bikini thong, sex kitten-ing his way through a boulevard of suited and booted women for their pleasure".

Facilities in the control condition were given a directive to improve HIV services on their own.

As I said in commentary, you either give a directive, or you don't say anything.