His choice of ambassador to the Soviet Union was the dissident Rudolf Slansky, the namesake son of a former head of the Czechoslovak Communist Party who had been executed on directives from Moscow.
But under the terms of the plea bargain Vlok, in the late 1980s a hardline minister who has since admitted he passed on directives from the cabinet for the police to "eliminate" anti-apartheid activists, is obliged to assist in any future prosecutions over crimes he knows about.
The British parliament discussed public use of the flag, and based on directives from England, the British Indian government threatened to withdraw funds from municipalities and local governments that did not prevent the display of the Swaraj flag.
Smoke-free policy is based on directives from the Minister of Health and covers Ministry of Health buildings and selected premises such as ports, government vehicles and hotels.
With support from university professors of Islamic studies and a cadre of imams, they began to develop the programming -- on the basis of directives from on high to drive home specific messages repeatedly.
The argument centres on a directive from Brandis to Gleeson that says no one in government, including the prime minister, can seek Gleeson's advice without the attorney general's permission.
Internal structures are the proteins produced on the bases of directives from the genes.
There was a sense then that United might be banking on a directive from the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, which was considering United's application for a loan guarantee package.
Because of directives from Major League Baseball on how to do their jobs, umpires are attracting so much attention, they may soon be able to demand a pay increase for being stars just like players.
While the occasional court case and government initiative made the news and stirred some controversy, affirmative action was pretty far down the list of public excitements until the autumn of 1972, when the Secretary of Labor's Revised Order No. 4, fully implementing the Executive Order, landed on campus by way of directives from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
