"I know the referee has directives to adhere to," he said in his best gor-blimey accent, "but to get banned through being booked for that seems a bit harsh".
The Catholic Church also has directives on end-of-life care that may limit treatment options to suffering patients that are otherwise legally available.
American forces are still there, and the top American commander, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., said that despite the public demands by President Karzai, "he has not issued a directive to the force, and he realizes that we're working this as quickly as we can".
Specifically, baseball plans to show that as McCourt has enjoyed receiving monies from the commissioner's office, he has ignored directives from Selig and he has tried to expel the monitor Selig appointed to oversee the team's finances.
He has issued directives that could ultimately change what sort of data can be used to calculate air-quality standards throughout the country and which studies can factor into public health rules.
If you have children who are minors, you must have directives in place should anything happen to both parents.
Trump's speed sent federal officials into a tailspin, and many did not have directives on how to carry out the executive order.
If Trump really believes the intelligence community's assessment of Russian election interference, as he now insists he does, then surely he has given specific directives to our national security and intelligence leaders to address it.
Perhaps unconsciously, he has mimicked the directive of Irving Fisher, one of the United States' first great economists, who likened the task of central bankers to that of steering a bicycle: "Turn the wheel slightly, and if that is not enough, you turn it some more, or if you turn it too much, you turn it back".
He called those tactics "unacceptable" and "stupid," and said he has issued a directive banning their future use.
An energetic satirist of everything from the Christian Brothers to EU funding directives, he has also rejoiced in literary pranks such as stealing Will Self's pig, awarded as part of the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction (Gough was also in the running, with the first in his picaresque novels about the hapless anti-hero Jude).
