Sentence examples for order from above from inspiring English sources

Then the call came – a direct order from above to have the tanks begin patrolling again.

"I think it's that the person who's responsible for my case didn't get a clear order from above," he said.

"We weren't given any official explanation only that it was routine procedure but extraofficially police officers told us they said they had been given an order from above".

"What we saw was ordinary people, with no order from above, respecting tradition and acting out of sheer hospitality and solidarity.

The military-intelligence officer who was familiar with practices at Guantánamo told me that the order from above was "Get me results!" He said, "There was huge frustration.

The newspaper quoted an intelligence source as saying the officers were "ready for a transfer to Damascus, however, the order from above has not been given".

After 17 years of silence, the guardsmen said they had acted after receiving "orders from above".

On orders from above, truck drivers start nudging pushcarts off the street, sometimes even smashing them.

"The orders from above were to do everyday tax processing," she said.

Orders from above can't institute change: "if it's not demanded, then it won't be produced," he says.

Zico vows he will never take orders from above on who to play and which system to use.