Sentence examples for harsh directive from inspiring English sources

After seeing it in action, assessing objects by "sparking joy" felt less like a harsh directive, and more like a shorthand that made sorting easier.

After initially issuing flat denials of a problem and then blaming a typical winter temperature inversion — despite above-average temperatures throughout November and early December — the Iranian government has since resorted to drastic compensatory measures like sudden two-day public holidays and harsh traffic-control directives.

Most of the harsher methods automatically authorized in the earlier directive, like segregating a prisoner for more than 30 days, would not be permitted without the general's approval.

After harsh criticism from Ohio Democrats, Husted implemented a directive that created uniform voting hours across the state.

His tone was considerably harsher when it came to defending a January 1991 directive to all the company's restaurants to fire employees "whose sexual preferences fail to demonstrate normal heterosexual values".

Last year, when the Party faced mounting complaints over deadly air pollution, Internet censorship, and rampant graft, it arrested lawyers, activists, and journalists in the harshest such measure in decades, and circulated an internal directive to senior members.

But it turned out to be some spluttering directive from the People's Committee, denouncing me in the harshest terms, to be sure, but letting me go.

Gingrich's harsh assessment was due partly to his pique over a news article he had read that day about a Central Command directive that he found beyond comprehension.

Karl Lagerfeld's directive?

One directive encourages the heavy migration of Han Chinese to the Tibetan plateau; they often take coveted jobs in shops, restaurants and other businesses during the warmer months, then go back to their lowland homes during the harsh Tibetan winters.

Too harsh.