Sentence examples for official ordering from inspiring English sources

Two weeks ago, the Madison-based Capitol Times published a confidential memo from a senior Department of Motor Vehicles official ordering DMV employees to refrain from volunteering to members of the public that they could get a basic photo I.D. without having to pay.

An inscription on the first page of the document described it as "A petition for mandamus [a writ from a superior court to an inferior court or official, ordering some specific action] in the case of the People vs. the Auditor of Illinois, before the Hon. S. H. Treat, C. J., presiding during the June term, 1851, Lincoln and Herndon for the petitioner".

The second damaging document, disclosed in today's New York Times, is a letter from a senior Justice Department official ordering a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Stephen Mansfield, to stop his investigation of the now-famous fund-raising luncheon that Mr. Gore attended in April 1996 at a Buddhist retreat in California.

Shortly afterward, a parade official ordered handlers to significantly lower the balloons.

After that, Mr. Kader said, the official ordered a Red Cross truck that was delivering supplies to the area to leave.

An official ordered Pappas back to the track, and he lingered there as the meet went on.

In Kupwara, a local official ordered the police to open fire on a crowd of 2,000 people who had gathered in defiance of the curfew, police officials said.

Polish officials on Wednesday rejected the analysis, and indeed, a cockpit voice recording offers no evidence that Mr. Kaczynski or any other official ordered the pilot to land.

But in 1952, he received a letter from government officials ordering him to go to Kazakhstan to teach high school.

The officials ordered pizza.

American officials ordered that the papers be redacted.