Sentence examples for ordered from above from inspiring English sources

We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences.

The extreme resolution implied that Koolhaas's conflicting visions of Lagos — ordered from above, chaotic from the ground — could be united into one image, capturing both the city and its humanity.

Since relationships cannot be ordered from above, the middle manager will have to earn his or her own way and will have to gain the confidence and respect of counterparts not by virtue of the uniform worn, but instead by the quality of daily activities.

The climbdown from Mr Benyon's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) yesterday bore all the hallmarks of having been ordered from above – just as Defra's abandoning of its forests sell-off policy was similarly directed by Downing Street when it began to produce ridicule for Mr Cameron's claim to be running the greenest Government ever.

It is ordered from above, so there must be a way to do it.

In fact, most new managers see themselves as targets of organizational change initiatives, implementing with their groups the changes ordered from above.

According to the conventional view, accounting is a means of ordering activity from above to achieve the inevitable and uniform end of profitability.

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.

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